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School Fee Loans to Increase Students' Educational Outcomes in Uganda

Paul Gertler
Brett Green
Catherine Wolfram
Researchers are evaluating the impact of a digital school fee loan, with and without a direct repayment incentive, on repayment rates, households’ well-being, and students’ educational outcomes.
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Evaluating an Exporting Scheme in Tunisia

Giacomo De Giorgi
Aminur Rahman
Eric Verhoogen
To promote export diversification, the Tunisian government is implementing a $22 million export matching-grant scheme, TASDIR+. TASDIR+ aims to increase exports and promote export diversification toward higher value-added exports and new markets. This study is using a randomized controlled trial to...
Woman in yellow dress doing labor harvesting tea in Malawi

Deferring Wages and Labor Supply in Malawi

Lasse Brune
Jason Kerwin
Researchers partnered with a tea company in Malawi to study the effects of a savings product that allowed workers to defer payment of a part of their wages. The deferred wages program was generally popular and increased savings; in the longer run, it helped workers improve their houses.
People are shopping for produce from female street vendor leveraging microcredit from government to start business

Leveraging Government Transfers to Offer Low-Risk Microcredit in the Dominican Republic

Frederico Finan
Seth Garz
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
Despite the initial promise of microcredit, randomized evaluations have found at best modest effects of microloans on poverty. Digitized payments from government cash transfer programs provide a unique opportunity to offer microcredit while addressing some of its shortcomings, potentially reducing...
A look at livelihood approach for middle-aged woman tending to brown cow asset

Comparing Livelihood Approaches for the Ultra-Poor in Ghana

Nate Barker
Elizabeth Bradley
Gharad Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher Udry
The Graduation Approach, a model for holistic livelihoods programs, has been proven to have lasting impacts on poor families’ income, assets, food security, and mental health, but these programs can be expensive to implement. In Ghana, researchers are evaluating the impact of different variations of...
Person works on laptop with Philippine currency and bank card

Sensitivity to Interest Rates and Account Ownership Requirements for a Commitment Savings Account in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers worked with First Valley Bank in the Philippines to evaluate the impact of varying the interest rate and account ownership requirements on demand for commitment savings accounts. While savings account take-up was 23 percent, neither the interest rates nor the ownership requirements...
Person accessing cash from checking account with bank card at grocery store in Chile

Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers Through Checking and Savings Accounts in Chile

Claudia Martínez Alvear
Abhijit Banerjee
Many beneficiaries of social welfare programs around the world receive benefits in cash or by check. Can distributing welfare benefits through electronic transfers directly into bank accounts help some of these low-income individuals enter the formal financial sector? Researchers are partnering with...
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Saving for Multiple Goals with Lockboxes in Malawi

Shilpa Aggarwal
Valentina Brailovskaya
Jon Robinson
In Malawi, researchers offered micro-entrepreneurs either single or multiple lockboxes to evaluate the impact of the boxes on savings and other business and financial outcomes. Individuals offered multiple lockboxes saved more than those offered a single lockbox, suggesting that providing lockboxes...