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This paper uses a set of randomized experiments to examine the impact of a group business development program …
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dealing with the self-selection inherent in migration choices. Field and natural experiments offer methodological approaches … policymakers in assessing the credibility of causal claims. For randomized experiments, this includes providing a framework for … can arise. The paper then outlines what makes for a good natural experiment in the context of migration, and discusses the …
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Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among secondary school graduates. Combining survey and high-frequency social security data, the...
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The use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences has greatly expanded, resulting in newly abundant, high-quality data that can be reused to perform methods research in program evaluation, to systematize evidence for policymakers, and for replication and training purposes....
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Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The...
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COVID-19 epidemics. In the experiment, all 1,348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets …
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of economic crises. This paper reports results from a nationwide experiment with a large consumer lender in India …, designed to study how debt forbearance offers affect loan repayment and banking relationships. In the experiment, borrowers …: in a follow-up experiment conducted several months after the main intervention demand for a non-credit product offered by …
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-based randomized controlled experiment conducted separately in three countries, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Respondents … effects in the experiment. The results contrast with the well-established efficacy of monetary incentives to influence …
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protection. This paper examines the effects of an information and awareness-raising intervention, delivered via email and text … messages on men's and women's awareness and intentions of shared take-up of a parental leave program. The experiment provided … recent and prospective parents meeting the social security requirements to benefit from parental leave with information about …
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In northern Nigeria, half of primary school-age children attend school, half of girls are married before turning 15, and one in five people can read a whole sentence. Conducted in rural, low literate communities governed by traditional norms, this paper presents the results of a cluster...
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