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Kenyan Government Bonds as a Savings Tool
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Mariel Bedoya
Mariel Bedoya is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC where she works on the implementation and evaluation of various interventions aiming to reduce informational frictions in the education market in countries like Peru and Dominican Republic.
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Lilly Bayly
Lilly Bayly is a Fall Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL Global where she works on assisting the Policy and Communications team, and supporting J-PAL's research initiatives.
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Financial Coaching in Peru
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The Welfare Effects of Behavioral Energy Conservation in the United States
In the United States, researchers evaluated the social welfare impacts of one very popular nudge to decrease energy consumption—Home Energy Reports (HERs). While they found that the HERs increased social welfare overall, these gains were far less than those reported by previous evaluations that did not account for many of the non-energy costs incurred by nudge recipients.
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The Impact of Defaults and Financial Incentives on Savings Decisions on a Mobile Money Platform in Afghanistan
In partnership with a mobile network operator launching a new phone-based savings account, researchers evaluated the role of defaults and financial incentives on savings decisions. Two months after the launch of the phone-based savings account, the company’s employees randomly assigned a default contribution rate of 5 percent were 40 percentage points more likely to contribute to the account than employees assigned a default contribution rate of 0 percent.
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The Impact of Mass Media and Family Planning Campaigns on Contraception Use in Burkina Faso
Researchers evaluated the impact impact of both general exposure to mass media and an intensive family planning campaign on contraception. Increasing exposure to general mass media reduced contraception use in this context. However, a high-quality family planning radio campaign offset the negative effect of general mass media and increased contraception use, lowered births and misperceptions about contraception, and increased reported welfare.
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Increasing Tax Compliance and Improving Civic Engagement in Haiti
Researchers are partnering with the mayor of Carrefour, Haiti to evaluate the impact of increased provision of public goods, tax collection efforts, and public exposure of tax compliance on measures of citizen engagement like taxes, voting, and community participation.
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The role of a (digital) universal basic income in supporting pandemic resilience
Does universal basic income (UBI) help vulnerable populations respond to large-shocks, such as COVID-19? J-PAL affiliated researchers recently followed up on a 2017 study to assess the program's impact.