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A pregnant woman receives prenatal care.

Nudging Medical Providers to Adopt and Sustain Better Quality Care Practices in Argentina

Pablo Celhay
Paul Gertler
Paula Giovagnoli
Christel Vermeersch
Students studying.

Shaping Educational Careers of Immigrant Children: Motivation, Cognitive Skills and Teachers’ Beliefs in Italy

Michela Carlana
Eliana La Ferrara
Paolo Pinotti
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of an academic tutoring and career counseling program designed to reduce educational inequalities between native-born and immigrant children. Can tutoring and career counseling help improve the educational outcomes of high-ability...

Improving Health Provider Performance in Kenya

Isaac Mbiti
Danila Serra
Man carries buckets of water to house in dry landscape

Harvesting Rainfall: Experimental Evidence from Cistern Deployment in Northeast Brazil

Gustavo Bobonis
Paul Gertler
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Simeon Nichter
Distributing water cisterns in northeast Brazil led to fewer requests for private benefits from local politicians and fewer votes for incumbent mayors, who typically have more resources to engage in clientelism. Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and J-PAL's Latin America & Caribbean office are now working with...
Health worker administrates polio-vaccine drops to a child during anti-polio immunization campaign at Pak-Afghan Border on January 20, 2015 in Chaman.

Pay for Perfomance Incentives for Heathcare Workers in Pakistan

James Andreoni
Michael Callen
Karrar Jaffar
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Charles Sprenger
Women farmers in Afghanistan

Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra-Poor Impact Evaluation

In Afghanistan, researchers evaluated the impact of a Targeting the Ultra Poor program on poverty reduction. The cost-effective program generated large positive impacts for women participants across key outcomes: consumption, assets, psychological well-being, total time spent working, financial...
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The Impact of a Pension Program on Senior Citizen's Wellbeing in Paraguay

Paul Gertler
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Creating Moves to Opportunity in Seattle-King County

Peter Bergman
Raj Chetty
Stefanie DeLuca
Nathaniel (Nathan) Hendren
Lawrence Katz
Christopher Palmer