Powerful women: female leadership and gender bias in India
The impact of female political leaders on policy decisions

Balsakhi remedial tutoring in Vadodara, India
Does remedial tutoring for primary school students improve learning?

Discrimination in the job market
Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal?

Information and social interaction in savings decisions
The influence of information and social networks on voluntary Tax Deferred Account enrollment

HIV/AIDS prevention education in primary schools in Kenya
A cost benefit analysis of Kenya's AIDS prevention program

Computer-assisted learning project with Pratham in India
Does access to computer-assisted learning in primary schools improve the quality of education?

Encouraging teacher attendance through monitoring with cameras in rural Udaipur, India
Cameras with time-date stamps documented teacher attendance, incentive pay rewarded attendance, and tests measured how student performance changed as a result

Flipcharts, school inputs, and retrospective versus prospective analyses in Kenya
Randomized trials versus retrospective studies: the case of flipcharts in Kenya

Affirmative action in engineering college admissions in India
The effect of cast-based affirmative action on a college-age cohort in Bhopal, India

Interest rates and consumer credit: identifying evidence for moral hazard and adverse selection in microcredit in South Africa
The effect of changing the interest rate on loan acceptance in South Africa

Marketing effects in a consumer credit market in South Africa: pricing the effect of psychological "features" on the take-up of a loan product in a mass mailing marketing campaign
Investigating marketing effects on loan acceptance in South Africa

Business education for microcredit clients in Peru
Examining the impact of integrating business training into the normal credit operations of group-lending microfinance institutions

Commitment savings products in the Philippines
Can innovative savings products help increase savings?

Finding missing markets: an agricultural brokerage intervention in Kenya
Investigating the factors keeping farmers from the local market

Group versus individual liability in the Philippines
Introducing individual liability into group-lending microcredit contracts

Valuing trust in shantytowns in Peru
Determining and analyzing the value of trust with microcredit lending models

Understanding technology adoption: fertilizer in Western Kenya
Why don't poor small-scale farmers adopt existing technologies to improve agricultural yields?

Primary school deworming in Kenya
Estimating the impact of child health gains, due to a primary school health project, on their educational outcomes

Balwadi deworming in India
Estimating the impact of child health gains, due to a preschool health and nutrition project, on preschool participation

Incentives to learn: a merit-based girls' scholarship program in Kenya
Examining the impacts of scholarships for girls in Kenya

Healthcare and health status in Udaipur district, Rajasthan
Attempting to identify the determinants of health among the rural population of Udaipur district in Rajasthan, India

Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia
Measuring the impact of vouchers for private schooling in Colombia

Peer effects, alcohol and college roommates
Examining the impact of randomly assigned college roommates on drinking behavior

Peer effects, diversity and college roommates
Examining the impact of randomly assigned college roommates on diversity-related outcomes

Teacher incentives based on students' test scores in Kenya
Examining the effects of a teacher incentives program in Kenya

Decentralization: a cautionary tale - public finance in Kenya
Centralization and school finance in Kenya

The Rockefeller effect: looking at organizations of the disadvantaged in Kenya
The impact of outside funding on community organizations in Kenya

Textbooks and test scores in Kenya
Evidence from a prospective evaluation of textbook provision in Kenya

School meals, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya
School meals, educational attainment, and school competition in Kenya

The illusion of sustainability: comparing free provision of deworming drugs and "sustainable" approaches such as cost sharing, health education, and verbal commitments in Kenya
Examining "sustainable" deworming interventions in Kenya

Social learning about health in Kenya
Networks, social learning, and technology adoption for the case of deworming drugs in Kenya

Long-term impacts of vouchers for private schooling in Colombia
Long-term consequences of secondary school vouchers: evidence from administrative records in Colombia

Saving incentives for low and middle income families: evidence from a field experiment with H&R Block
Analyzing the effects of matching incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation

Peer effects, pupil-teacher ratios, and teacher incentives in Kenya
Do locally-hired contract teachers improve primary school education? Do teaching and learning improve when students are grouped into classes by achievement?

Primary education management in Madagascar
Examining the impact of a management intervention on key actors in the educational system as well as on school outcomes

Combating corruption in community development in Indonesia
Top-down versus bottom-up monitoring of corruption in rural infrastructure projects

Direct democracy and local public goods in Indonesia
Can direct democracy reduce elite capture?

The capability of informational campaigns to raise awareness and local participation in primary education in India
Examining the uses of information and community mobilization to improve school functioning and children's learning in rural Indian primary schools

Using encouragement to overcome psychological barriers to saving
How community-based banks can use encouragement to help clients meet their saving goals and develop the habit of saving with formal institutions in urban Peru

The effect of matching ratios on charitable giving
Putting the psychological drivers of giving in context: evidence from a series of direct mail field experiments

Cooking stoves, indoor air pollution, and respiratory health in India
The health and economic impacts of reducing indoor air pollution

Interest rates and consumer credit: identifying evidence for moral hazard and adverse selection in microcredit in South Africa
Determining the effect of changing interest rate or maturity period on loans

Deposit collectors in the Philippines
Will a visit from a bank representative to a house increase that household's savings? Evidence from the Philippines

Effect of media on voting behavior and political opinions in the U.S.
Determining the effect of subscriptions to local liberal and conservative newspapers on voters' attitudes in Washington, D.C.

Expanding credit access: estimating the impacts
What happens when you extend a loan to a client who previously was denied?

Impact of rural banking program on savings, consumption smoothing, and intra-household resource allocation in Kenya
Testing the impact of formal savings accounts on savings, productive investment and expenditures among small-scale entrepreneurs in rural Western Kenya

Police performance and public perception in Rajasthan, India
Evaluating interventions to improve police performance, efficiency, accountability and relationship with the public

Identifying retail distribution strategies for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in malaria-endemic areas
How can different factors influence LLIN purchasing decisions?

Identifying retail distribution strategies for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in malaria-endemic areas in Kenya
Analyzing the tradeoffs between free and partial-subsidization of public health goods

Counseling the unemployed in France
Does providing counseling and monitoring to unemployed jobseekers actually have an impact? Do they stay employed? Does it matter if the agency that administers the program is privately- or governmentally-run?

Responses to degree of control over remittances in El Salvador

Financial innovation and risk management: rainfall insurance

Human capital, financial capital, and the economic empowerment of female adolescents: evidence from a randomized intervention in Uganda and Tanzania
How can adolescent girls be empowered in rural settings and what is the effect of this empowerment on their economic outcomes, self confidence, expectations and aspirations?

Incentives for nurses in the Indian public healthcare system in Udaipur, India

Teacher performance pay in Andhra Pradesh, India

Urban housing in Ahmedabad, India

Debt traps for micro-entrepreneurs in Chennai, India
How do microfinance clients manage their cash?

Source water quality improvement in Kenya

Estimating the impact of the Hajj: religion and tolerance in Islam's global gathering

Spousal control and intra-household decision making in the Philippines

Estimating the impact - on the lender's bottom line and borrowers' household welfare - of expanding the supply of consumer credit to the working poor in South Africa

Discrimination in the judicial system

Efficiency and rent seeking in local government in India

Campaigns to influence voting behavior in Uttar Pradesh, India
Do people vote based on gender, ethnicity, and caste identity rather than based on issues; and how might information campaigns help voters hold elected officials accountable for delivering better policy?

Bank accounts: take-up and impact
Tracing the effects of bank accounts on the lives of the poor

Kenya life panel survey
Estimating the impact of child health gains - due to a primary school health project - on their later educational, labor market, health, and marriage outcomes

Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India
What is the impact of microcredit on the incomes, health, and education of poor families?

Community driven development in Sierra Leone
Do community empowerment projects improve local governance, and increase the inclusion of vulnerable groups?

An impact evaluation of microcredit in rural areas of Morocco
What is the impact of microcredit on agricultural and non-agricultural activities, income, consumption, poverty and household security?

Conditional community cash transfers in Indonesia
Should aid be conditional on performance?

The demand for and impact of learning HIV status in Malawi
Examining the impact of incentives to stay HIV-negative

Providing health insurance through microfinance networks in rural Karnataka, India
Can providing health insurance to microfinance clients improve outcomes?

Debt trap, financial literacy, and savings in Philippines
Evaluating the national health insurance program offered to microfinance clients in the Philippines

Measuring the impact of microcredit in the Philippines
Evaluating the effects of receiving a loan while simultaneously assessing a credit scoring model

Psychological responses to microfinance loan recovery strategies in Peru
Measuring the persuasive power of group or individual pressure and optimistic or pessimistic spins to encourage loan repayment

CARES commitment savings for smoking cessation in the Philippines
Evaluating a commitment savings program in which clients who wish to quit smoking are given access to savings only if they successfully quit smoking

Debt trap, financial literacy, and savings in Philippines
Studying the characteristics of vendors who repeatedly fall into high-interest debt

Determinants of delinquency in the Philippines
Studying the characteristics of microfinance clients who are more likely to default with the aim of helping microfinance institutions make better selection decisions

Emergency savings accounts for remittance receivers in Mexico
Assessing the impact of a labeled savings account on the allocation of funds for future, emergency needs

The impact of rural credit in Peru
Examining the impact of microcredit offerings on communities and individuals in rural Peru

Interest rate sensitivities to micro-loans according to poverty level in Ghana
Examining how interest rates affect the take-up of individual micro-loan products according to the poverty level of the recipient

Interest rate sensitivity among microfinance clients in the Philippines
Evaluating the interest sensitivity among microfinance clients by offering loans at randomly assigned interest rates

Interest rate sensitivity among village banking clients in Mexico
Measuring price elasticity of demand among microfinance clients through random assignment of interest rates

Inviting husbands to female solidarity groups in Mexico
Evaluating household impacts of including husbands in solidarity lending groups

Measuring demand for hospitalization insurance in the Philippines
Measuring the effect of differences in premiums, coverage, and marketing packages on insurance take-up

Psychology of savings: evaluation of commitment savings program - FICO Bank, Philippines
Testing various mechanisms and designs to encourage habit-forming behaviors

Microfinance and health protection initiative, including malaria education, in Benin
Evaluating the impact of the solidarity lending, health education, and provision of health products with Freedom From Hunger and PADME in Benin

Peeling back the layers of group liability in Bolivia
Examining whether reducing group liability in a group lending program in Bolivia will broaden the program's outreach while maintaining high repayment rates, and investigating the optimal formation of solidarity groups within the program

Teacher and student motivation, family participation, and student achievement in rural Udaipur, India
What are the links between instructor and student motivation and absenteeism, family participation and student achievement in rural India?

Misclassification in the targeted public distribution system in India
Examining the role of household-authority connectedness on ration card designation

Education information intervention in Sierra Leone
The impact of empowering parents and communities on children's access to education

Counseling welfare recipients in France
Studying the outcomes of intensive personal counseling given to long-term welfare recipients

Counseling scheme for the young and educated unemployed in France
Assessing the impact and crowding out effects of a counseling scheme directed at the young and educated unemployed

Helping the ultra-poor use microcredit in Murshidabad, India
Can training and assistance help the ultra-poor become successful microfinance clients?

Household water connections in Tangier, Morocco
How do household water connections affect health, income, and schooling?

Community-based monitoring of primary healthcare providers in Uganda
How does being more accountable to the community affect health service providers?

Participation and accountability in healthcare provision in Uganda
Does performance monitoring and "scoring" of public health programs by communities improve their effectiveness?

Extending health insurance to the informal sector through microfinance in Nicaragua
Does offering health insurance through microfinance institutions enhance affordable healthcare?

Menstruation and education in Nepal

Empowering girls in rural Bangladesh
How does building basic skills, social skills and financial skills empower adolescents?

Microfinance repayment schedules in West Bengal, India
Understanding the effects of more flexible repayment schedules of microfinance loans on default and repayment patterns

Hope versus fear in health credit marketing in Bolivia

Spanish computer-assisted learning program in Colombia

Small and medium enterprise financing and mentoring services in emerging markets in the Dominican Republic

Awareness campaign for parents of middle school students

Returns to medium and small enterprise management consulting in Ghana

Evaluating an epicenter scale-up strategy in Ghana

Evaluation of a village savings and loans (VSLA) program in Ghana

Group versus individual liability in Ghana

Examining underinvestment in agriculture: returns to capital and insurance among farmers in Ghana

Examining effects of crop price insurance for farmers in Ghana

Savings account labeling and financial literacy training for susu customers in Ghana

Business training for women in Ahmedabad, India
Does training women in good business practices increase the benefits of microfinance?

Urban housing in Ahmedabad, India
Retrospectively examining the long-term effects of a 1993 lottery relocation program on economic mobility

Village based schools in Afghanistan

Text message reminders and incentives to save in Bolivia

Lock boxes and a bridge to formal banking in Bolivia

Promoting community health in Uganda
Measuring the effects of a program that trains and implements networks of door-to-door community health promoters

Futures prices and risk hedging in Gujarat, India

Financial literacy, access to finance, and the effect of being banked in Indonesia

Targeting the ultra-poor in Ethiopia

Mentoring youth to help guide them professionally

Targeting the ultra-poor (TUP) in Bangladesh
Can providing the ultra-poor with a comprehensive assistance package help them break the poverty cycle and increase their access to mainstream development services?

Targeting the ultra-poor (TUP) in rural Honduras

Designing conditional cash transfers in education: Colombia Subsidios Program
How do conditional cash transfer programs' incentive structures impact students' rates of attendance, graduation, and continuation to higher education?

Graduating the poorest into microfinance: linking safety nets with financial services on the model of BRAC's TUP program in Pakistan
Can intensive training, asset transfer, and financial education improve livelihoods and help the ultra-poor take advantage of mainstream microfinance opportunities?

Supporting youth entrepreneurship in disadvantaged neighborhoods in France
Does an entrepreneurship program help youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods start and sustain their own business?

Vocational training for low-skilled, unemployed young people in France
How does a specific set of intensive vocational training programs combined with job placement initiatives affect the outcomes of at-risk, unemployed youth?

Returns to secondary schooling in Ghana
Investigating medium- and long-term effects of secondary schooling for a cohort of qualified but poor students in Ghana

Willingness and ability to pay for kosim clean water filter in Ghana

Improving immunization rates through regular camps and incentives in Udaipur, India

Reducing anemia through iron fortification of grain in Udaipur, India

Teacher-student ratios and school performance in Udaipur, India

Police in India: performance and public perception, part II

Information, accountability and governance among the urban poor in Delhi, India

Information, accountability and governance among the urban poor in Hyderabad, India

Empowerment of women representatives in India

Read India: helping primary school students in India acquire basic reading and math skills

Extra contract teachers in Andhra Pradesh, India

School block grants in Andhra Pradesh, India

School choice in Andhra Pradesh, India

Computer assisted learning project with Gyan Shala in India

Library program with Akshara Foundation in India

Teacher training program with Gyan Shala in India

How to teach English in India: testing the relative productivity of instruction methods within the Pratham English language education program

Teaching pre-schoolers to read: a randomized evaluation of the Pratham Shishuvachan program in India

Obtaining a drivers license in India: an experimental approach to studying corruption

Improving industrial pollution regulations in India

Health and nutrition education and communication programs' effects on maternal and infant health in Gujarat, India

Flexible repayment schedules for dairy clients in KAS Foundation in Orissa, India

India: does the addition of social objectives to microfinance enhance program impact?

Political mobilization in Delhi slums

Voter awareness media campaign in rural Andhra Pradesh

Effectively targeting anti-poverty programs in Indonesia

Teacher certification and salary increase in Indonesia

Teacher training and professional development in Indonesia

Farmer decision-making and technology experimentation in Indonesia

The impact of distributing school uniforms on children's education in Kenya

HIV/Aids and education in Western Kenya: A biomarker follow-up

Estimating credit constraints among small shopkeepers in Kenya

Limited insurance within the household in Kenya

Vocational education voucher delivery and labor market returns in Kenya

The demand for safe water among mothers of young children in Kenya

Evaluation of the saving for change program in Mali

Mentoring micro-, small, medium enterprises in Puebla, Mexico

Private school incentive program in Pakistan

Interventions aimed at child laborers in the Nepalese carpet industry

School grants and their impact on primary education in Niger
Do grants given to local school management committees improve school management and education outcomes?

Evaluating the social and economic impact of microcredit on individual borrowers and their communities

Conditional cash transfers for education in Morocco

Targeting the ultra-poor in Peru

Enabling participation of small farmers in inclusive value chains in Peru

Barriers to the demand for condoms in Peru

Credit scoring with the Caja Municipal de Ica in Peru

Interest rate and impact study in rural expansion in Cusco

Amazonas, Peru: Interest rates and client incentives for repayment study in Puno and San Martin

Spousal cosigning requirement as barrier to female access to credit

Health education for microcredit clients in Peru

Psychology of savings: evaluation of commitment savings program - First Valley Bank, Philippines

Impact of microcredit and interest rate sensitivity

Text message loan repayment reminders for micro-borrowers in the Philippines: An effective tool for boosting on-time repayment?

Impact of financial literacy and business training on microfinance clients in the Philippines

The psychology of debt: an experiment in India and the Philippines

Contraceptive adoption, fertility and the family in Zambia
How can we explain globally persistent unmet need for contraceptives and excess fertility?

The role of incentives in the distribution of public goods in Zambia

Role of information and radios on political knowledge and participation in Sierra Leone

Micro-savings in primary schools as a means to decrease student drop-out rates in Uganda

Encouraging underserved, intellectually curious children: An evaluation of the Higher Achievement Program in Washington, DC

Mood, time use, and food consumption: time management

Can higher prices stimulate product use? Evidence from a field experiment in Zambia