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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
Mathieu Perona
Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
Simone Schaner
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A Multifaceted Approach to Increase Women’s Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci
Rachel M. Heath
Eva Noble
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Behavioral Responses to a Social Security Information Intervention in the United States

Jeffrey Liebman
Erzo Luttmer
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Labor Supply and the Value of Non-Work Time in the United States

Alexandre Mas
Amanda (Mandy) Pallais

Understanding the Preferences and Productivity of Workers in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao
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Reminder Messaging and Peer Support for Debt Reduction in the United States

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Improving Consumer Choices on Health Insurance Marketplaces in the United States

Keith Ericson
Jon Kingsdale
Timothy Layton
Adam Sacarny
Researchers studied the impact of providing personalized and generic information about potential savings via letters and e-mails on enrollee health plan choices.
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Effects of Replicating Charter Schools in Boston, Massachusetts

Sarah Cohodes
Elizabeth Setren
Christopher Walters
Researchers studied a policy reform in Boston, Massachusetts, that allowed effective charter schools to replicate their school models at new locations. Results showed that charter schools reproduced their effectiveness at new campuses by following similar sets of standardized protocols...
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Dependence Duration and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from the United States

Kory Kroft
Fabian Lange
Matthew Notowidigdo
Résumés were randomly assigned black- or white-sounding names. Researchers examined the impact of the name on callbacks.

Discrimination in the Job Market in the United States

Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan
Researchers examined the level of racial discrimination in the United States labor market by randomly assigning identical résumés black-sounding or white-sounding names and observing the impact on requests for interviews from employers. Results found that résumés with white-sounding names received...