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Motivating Citizens to Seek Political Office in Pakistan

Saad Gulzar
Yasir Khan
Girls in line to receive their scholarships in rural Niger

Secondary School Scholarships to Increase Girls' Skill Development, Empowerment, and Job Opportunities in Niger

Hélène Giacobino
Elise Huillery
Bastien Michel
Mathilde Sage
Three young women gathered around a lab bench build a robot together.

The Effects of STEM Summer Programs on College Major, Persistence, and Graduation for Underrepresented High School Students in the United States

Sarah Cohodes
Helen Ho
Silvia Robles

Improving Immunization Coverage Through Incentives, Reminders, and Social Networks in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Arun Chandrasekhar
Suresh Dalpath
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Matthew O. Jackson
Harini Kannan
Francine Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha
Victor Chernozhukov
Mert Demirer
Iván Fernández-Val
Young girls in the classroom

Increasing Menstrual Hygiene Awareness to Reduce School Dropout among Adolescent Girls in Madagascar

Karen Macours
Julieta Vera
Duncan Webb
Women in Liberia sit at tables with sewing machines and cloth in front of them. Instructors, including one wearing a vest from the Liberian Red Cross, smile at the front of the room.

The Impact of Psychosocial Therapy and Vocational Skills Training on Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Liberia

David Park
Naresh Kumar
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Smiling woman with three children

The Health Impacts and Effective Delivery of Maternal Cash Transfers in Myanmar

Erica Field
Elisa Maffioli
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Simone Schaner
Lisa Cameron
Samuel Bazzi
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra

Enrolling Informal Sector Workers in National Health Insurance in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Amy Finkelstein
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Sudarno Sumarto
Arianna Ornaghi
A key challenge to achieving universal health coverage is that non-poor informal workers are difficult to enroll and retain in government health insurance programs. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of various programs, including subsidies, registration assistance and...

The Impact of Deliberative Political Campaigns on Voter Behavior in the Philippines

Leonard Wantchekon
Thomas Fujiwara
Daniel Rubenson
Cecilia Pe Lero
Gabriel López-Moctezuma
Three girls in uniforms with backpacks walk outside

Project Generasi: Conditional Community Block Grants in Indonesia

Benjamin A. Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong
Researchers partnered with the Government of Indonesia to evaluate the impact of community block grants and the additional effect of performance incentives. They found that community block grants improved health and education in Indonesian villages, and adding performance incentives sped up...
Women in hijab text on their cellphones in Indonesia

Moral Incentives to Increase Credit Card Repayment in Indonesia

Leonardo Bursztyn
Stefano Fiorin
Daniel Gottlieb
Martin Kanz

Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman
In “the text message capital of the world,” the Philippines, researchers tested the effect of text message reminders on client repayment rates. In contrast with previous research, they found that text message reminders did not increase repayment on average. Yet for repeat borrowers, who had known...
Women receiving financial literacy training in the Philippines

The Psychology of Debt: An Experiment in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Researchers are testing whether giving vendors money to pay off their outstanding debts or offering financial literacy trainings can help break these borrowers' cycles of debt.