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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
Mathieu Perona
Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
Simone Schaner
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A Multifaceted Approach to Increase Women’s Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci
Rachel M. Heath
Eva Noble
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs for Child Learning in India

James Berry
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Encouraging Savings through SMS Messages in the Dominican Republic

There is a growing body of evidence on the efficacy of SMS reminders to encourage banking clients to save more. Researchers in the Dominican Republic partnered with savings and credit institution Banco Unión to conduct two randomized evaluations of tailored SMS reminders.
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Experimental Evidence of Professor Engagement on Student Outcomes

Scott Carrell
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The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Context: Field Experimental Evidence from 1.96 Million Citizens in 17 States

Alan Gerber
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Peter Bergman
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Simplification, Assistance, and Incentives: A Randomized Experiment to Increase College Savings

Eric Bettinger
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Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers

Will Dobbie

The impact of case management on community college persistence and graduation in the United States

William (Bill) Evans
Melissa Kearney
At a community college in Fort Worth, Texas, researchers evaluated a comprehensive case management program called Stay the Course, which included mentoring and emergency financial assistance (EFA), and measured the impact of these services on students’ academic outcomes, including persistence in...