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Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural Udaipur, India

Esther Duflo
Rema Hanna
Stephen Ryan
This study estimated the effect of financial incentives on teacher attendance on students' attendance and math and language levels. The incentives increased teacher attendance and teaching time, and student test scores rose as a result.
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Testing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Enhance Conservation in Uganda

Seema Jayachandran
Joost de Laat
Eric Lambin
Charlotte Stanton
In Uganda, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the effectiveness of a program in which landowners were paid to not cut forest trees on their property. During the study period, landowners who were offered contracts to conserve forest cleared 4 percent of forested land, compared to 9...
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Counseling and Job Placement for Young Graduate Job Seekers in France (Jeunes Diplômés)

Bruno Crépon
Esther Duflo
Marc Gurgand
Roland Rathelot
Philippe Zamora
Career counseling for young, college-educated job seekers in France helped them find work sooner, but this improvement came at the expense of jobs for those who did not receive counseling, and it did not translate into a long-term increase in employment rates.
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Providing Entrepreneurship Training and Cash Business Grants to Venezuelan Migrants in Peru

Dean Karlan
Diego Santa Maria
Natalia Rigol
Benjamin Roth
Martin Valdivia
In Peru, researchers are delivering cash grants and business training to Venezuelan migrant entrepreneurs and assessing the impacts on the short- and long-term success of enterprises as well as migrants’ food security, health, and income.

Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of sending text message reminders to clients holding programmed savings accounts.

Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman
In “the text message capital of the world,” the Philippines, researchers tested the effect of text message reminders on client repayment rates. In contrast with previous research, they found that text message reminders did not increase repayment on average. Yet for repeat borrowers, who had known...
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Teaching Savings Practices to Ugandan Youth

Julian Jamison
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
In Uganda, researchers evaluated whether offering financial education or group savings accounts to church-based youth groups increased savings. One year after the intervention ended, they found that total savings and income had increased among youth who were offered financial education, group...
Teenage school girls participate in an HIV/AIDS prevention program in Kenya.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya

Pascaline Dupas
To test the impact of information on teenagers’ sexual decisions, a “Relative Risk Information Campaign” was conducted in 71 schools to give students information about the distribution of HIV infection rates by age and gender groups and discuss the role of cross-generational sex in the spread of HIV...