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Determinants of Delinquency: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Laura Burke
Nassereena Sampaco-Baddiri
Mark Miller
Jacob Geray
Researchers found that both individuals with higher moral standards and individuals who were the least naïve displayed lower default rates than other groups. They also found that survey-based social capital measures did not predict loan default for these individual loans, contrary to the results...
A woman holds a bowl of rice

Plugging the leaky bucket: Generating experimental evidence to support Indonesia's social protection reforms

Researchers partnered with the Government of Indonesia to measure the impact of replacing the delivery of their food assistance program from in-kind transfers to electronic vouchers on household welfare. The reform was more effective in delivering assistance to targeted beneficiaries and helped...
A program applicant taking a proxy means test.

Improving Targeting of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Ben Olken
Rema Hanna
Vivi Alatas
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation with the Indonesian government that compared self-targeting to automatic screening in the context of a conditional cash transfer program. Requiring households to apply for a cash transfer program in Indonesia discouraged rich households from seeking out...
Smiling woman with three children

Maternal Cash Transfer Myanmar

Erica Field
Elisa Maffioli

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Leonardo Bursztyn
Bruno Ferman
Gautam Rao
Stefano Fiorin
Martin Kanz
Large group of women wearing headscarves seated on wooden mat

Empowering Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services

Simone Schaner
Lisa Cameron
Samuel Bazzi
Firman Witoelar

Can Devolving the Police Increase the State's Capacity to Provide Legal Protections

Jasper Cooper
Researchers are using a randomized evaluation in Papua New Guinea to study the impact of the Community Auxiliary Police (CAP), a program that devolves policing powers to carefully selected community members.
Women in hijab text on their cellphones in Indonesia

Moral Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card

Leonardo Bursztyn
Stefano Fiorin
Daniel Gottlieb
Martin Kanz
Researchers partnered with a large Indonesian Islamic bank to evaluate the impact of sending moral appeals in reminder text messages to late-paying credit card holders. Messages stating that non-repayment of debts by someone who is able to repay is an injustice increased the number of clients...