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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
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Price Incentives for Groundwater Conservation in India

Nick Hagerty
Ariel Zucker
Researchers partner with a rural development organization to evaluate financial incentives for voluntary groundwater conservation among smallholder farmers in Gujarat, India.
Public toilets in India

The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health

Benjamin Arnhold
Bertha Briceno
Sandipan Ganguly
Paul Gertler
John M. Colford Jr.
Sumeet R Patil
Alicia L. Salvatore
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Health Care Hotspotting in the United States

Joel Cantor
Joseph Doyle
Amy Finkelstein
Jesse Gubb
Margaret Koller
Aaron Truchil
Annetta Zhou
Rapidly rising health care costs in the United States have generated interest in identifying effective ways to improve the quality of care delivery and reduce waste within the health care system. In this study, researchers evaluated the impact of a care management program that provides medical and...
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Environmental inspections for pollution regulation enforcement in China

Douglas Almond
Shuang Zhang
In collaboration with China’s National Environmental Inspection Program, researchers are evaluating the impact of reporting firms’ hourly emissions data to environmental inspectors on the likelihood of firms being inspected, local air pollution, local economic output, and health outcomes.