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Measuring the Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality in the Dominican Republic

Mattias Busso
Sebastian Galiani
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Comparing Livelihood Approaches for the Ultra-Poor in Ghana

Nate Barker
Elizabeth Bradley
Gharad Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher Udry
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Commitment Savings Accounts in the Dominican Republic

Veronica Frisancho
Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Martín Valdivia
Michael (Mike) Yeomans
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The Impact of Social Program Targeting Strategies on Reported and Actual Asset Ownership in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Sudarno Sumarto
Researchers partnered with the Government of Indonesia to conduct a randomized evaluation that tested whether adding questions on flat-screen televisions and cellphone SIM cards to a targeting census would change people’s reporting and actual purchases of those items. The findings suggest that while...
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Culture and Incentives: Does Performance Pay Impact Productivity, Work Quality, or Firm Profitability in Ghana?

Oriana Bandiera
Greg Fischer
A stand in Kenya advertising mobile phone-based money transfer service M-Pesa

The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on General Welfare in Kenya

Dennis Egger
Johannes Haushofer
Edward Miguel
Paul Niehaus
Michael Walker
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Changing Behavior to Improve Household Financial Management in Malawi

Lasse Brune
Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang
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Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers Through Checking and Savings Accounts in Chile

Claudia Martinez Alvear
Abhijit Banerjee