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Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their...
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experiment. These sources can include previous experiments, expert opinions, or the experimenter's own introspection. We … wrong treatment when deciding to stop the experiment, and the average rewards. We show that our framework exhibits several …
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When economists analyze a well-conducted RCT or natural experiment and find a statistically significant effect, they …
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This paper reports the results of a large, school-level randomized controlled trial evaluating a set of three informational interventions for young people choosing high schools in 473 middle schools, serving over 115,000 8th graders. The interventions differed in their level of customization to...
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student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black …
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We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to remind students about and support them with key steps in the college search, application, selection and transition process. First, in collaboration with the College Board and uAspire, both national non-profit organizations, we...
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a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an …
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In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen … with which to contrast teenage mothers. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an Instrumental Variables (IV …
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Because successful human capital interventions often fail to scale or replicate, public investment decisions require understanding how program size, context, and implementation shape program effects. This paper uses two new randomized controlled trials of summer youth employment programs in...
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We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is … heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and …
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