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Improving Job Safety: The Impact of Providing Information to Firms and Workers in Chile

Francisco Brahm
Jeanne Lafortune
Marcos Singer
José Tessada
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Using Deliberative Electoral Strategies to Overcome Clientelism in Benin

Thomas Fujiwara
Leonard Wantchekon
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The Impact of a Comprehensive Re-entry Program on Employment and Recidivism in the United States

Anthony Braga
Philip J. Cook
Songman Kang
Jens Ludwig
Mallory O'Brien
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Strengthening Village Courts in Rural Bangladesh

Martin Mattsson
Mushfiq Mobarak
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Voting "Because Others Will Ask" in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao

Discrimination Against Skilled Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market

Philip Oreopoulos
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Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence From An Electricity Pricing Program

Patrick Baylis
Peter Cappers
Meredith Fowlie
C. Anna Spurlock
Catherine Wolfram
Researchers partnered with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California to evaluate the effects of a variety of enrollment schemes in time-varying pricing plans on electricity consumption. Results show that households which were enrolled in time-varying pricing plans by default tended to...

Deposit Collectors in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf
Dean Karlan
Wes Yin
Researchers evaluated the impact of a door-to-door deposit-collecting service, which regularly collected funds from clients’ homes to be deposited at a local bank, on clients’ savings. Results demonstrated that clients who lived farther from a bank were more likely to take up the service, and...