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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability in Bangladesh?

Raymond Guiteras
Mushfiq Mobarak
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Reminder Messaging and Peer Support for Debt Reduction in the United States

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

The Role of the VAT for Tax Enforcement

Dina Pomeranz

The Value Added Tax (VAT) system, which generates a paper trail on transactions between firms, facilitated tax enforcement by spreading the impact of enforcement measures up the production chain in a study with over 400,000 firms in Chile.

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Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout in the United States?

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
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Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals among Voters in the United States

David Doherty
Conor M. Dowling
Alan Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Costas Panagopoulos
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Promoting Non-Cognitive Skills Through a Science and Technology Program in Chile

Paula Bedregal
Dante Contreras
Francisco Gallego
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Commitment Savings Accounts for Farmers in Rwanda

Maria Jones
Florence Kondylis
Mushfiq Mobarak
In an ongoing study, researchers are aiming to identify product features that increase demand for commitment savings accounts and evaluate the effect of the accounts on farm investments and yields.
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Spanish-language Radio Advertisements and Latinx Voter Turnout in the 2006 Congressional Elections

Donald Green
Costas Panagopoulos