products) to adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Girls in the study were randomly allocated a menstrual cup for use during their …

menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal effects of peer exposure on adoption; using …

differential improvement in sanitation across regions of Nepal between 2006 and 2011. Within regions over time, cohorts of children …

design in Nepal, we evaluate a program that provided information on best practices regarding child care and cash to families …

instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion …

settings across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Uganda. We test multiple scalable models of remote …

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

predictors of loan growth, we document, first, that we achieve high rates of predictive power. Second, "soft" information …

growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run growth potential than the easing of conventional entry barriers … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and …