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Reading the Fine Print: Credit Demand and Information Disclosure in Brazil

Bruno Ferman
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Incentives to Save in Ghana

Gharad Bryan
Margaret McConnell
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Social Pressure and Charitable Giving in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao
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Reminder Messaging and Peer Support for Debt Reduction in the United States

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
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Behavioral Responses to a Social Security Information Intervention in the United States

Jeffrey Liebman
Erzo Luttmer
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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs

Arielle Bernhardt
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Researchers re-examined data from previous studies in Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka to better understand the impact of credit and cash grant variations on micro-enterprise profits. Their results suggest that the gender gap in micro-enterprise performance was not due to ability, but rather to women’s...
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Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India

Frank Schilbach
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Offering Cash and In-Kind Transfers to Grow and Sustain Microenterprises in Sri Lanka

David McKenzie
Suresh de Mel
Christopher Woodruff
Researchers provided small one-time grants to microenterprises in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the additional capital on business profits two and five years later. They found that cash and in-kind grants increased business profits for male owners in the short and long term, but did not lead to...