Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcomes—the cog- nitive and non-cognitive abilities of disadvantaged pupils—in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find...