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Using Cell Phones to Monitor the Delivery of Government Payments to Farmers in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver
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Graduating the Ultra-Poor in Egypt

Adam Osman
William Parienté
Ragui Assaad
Christine Valente

Introducing Financial Services to Newly Monetized Amazonian Communities

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Ricardo Godoy
Margaret McConnell
Harry Patrinos

The Impacts of Gender Norms and Women’s Relationship Status on Career Ambitions in the United States

Leonardo Bursztyn
Amanda Pallais
Thomas Fujiwara

The Impact of Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Program on Child Health in Western Rwanda

Sheela S. Sinharoy
Wolf-Peter Schmidt
Ronald Wendt
Leodomir Mfura
Erin Crossett
Karen Grepin
William Jack
Bernard Ngabo Rwabufigiri
James Habyarimana
Tom Clasen
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Teachers’ traditional beliefs about gender negatively impact the academic performance of girls in Turkey

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac
Ipek Mumcu
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Graduating the Ultra-Poor in Egypt

Adam Osman
William Parienté
Ragui Assaad
Christine Valente
Following a series of evaluations of the Graduation approach in 15 other countries, researchers are now evaluating the impact of the Graduation approach on the livelihoods of the ultra-poor in Upper Egypt.
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Job Search Assistance for Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Stefano Caria
Grant Gordon
Maximilian Kasy
Simon Quinn
Soha Shami
Alex Teytelboym
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The Impact of Childcare Subsidies and Employment Services on Women’s Labor Force Participation in Egypt

Stefano Caria
Bruno Crépon
Caroline Krafft
AbdelRahman Nagy
In collaboration with Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing women with childcare subsidies and employment services on their employment and empowerment outcomes, as well as their children’s cognitive and...
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Cash-for-Work Program to Improve Social Cohesion between Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan

Eliana La Ferrara
Marcus E. Holmlund
Pedro Rosa-Dias
Researchers use a large-scale RCT to evaluate a program aimed to improve cohesion between Syrian refugees and their host communities in Jordan.
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Improving Youth Employment through Job Training and Capital in Egypt

Adam Osman
Ahmed Elsayed
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Targeting the Ultra Poor in Yemen

Lasse Brune
Dean Karlan
Sikandra Kurdi
Christopher Udry
To test this theory, researchers evaluated a multi-faceted approach aimed at improving long term income of the ultra-poor in multiple countries, including Yemen.
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Labeled Remittances from Workers to Improve Household Allocation Compliance in the Philippines

Dean Yang
Giuseppe De Arcangelis
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing the option of labeled remittances to Filipino workers in the United Arab Emirates on the amount of remittances sent and what those remittances are used for by their recipients.
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Inter-religious Soccer Leagues to Promote Social Cohesion in Post-ISIS Iraq

Salma Mousa
Researchers evaluated the impact of mixed Christian-Muslim soccer teams on social cohesion and interactions between these groups in an ISIS-affected area of Iraq. Christians who played on mixed teams demonstrated a higher likelihood of engaging with Muslim teammates after the league ended, but the...