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Can grit be taught? : lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students

Santos, Indhira; Petroska-Beska, Violeta; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2022

We study whether a particular socio-emotional skill - grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest towards long-term goals) - can be cultivated through a large-scale program, and how this affects student learning. Using a randomized control trial, we evaluate the first nationwide...

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Informational shocks and street-food safety: a field study in urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco; Mookerjee, Sulagna; Tommasi, Denni - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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A playground for tax compliance? : testing fiscal exchange in an RCT in Argentina

Eguino, Huáscar; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020

We present new evidence that a non-threatening behavioral intervention appealing to reciprocity significantly increases tax compliance in a setting (i.e., crisis-ridden Argentina) where one might least expect such an intervention to succeed. Prior research offers many examples of the efficacy of...

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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in …

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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016

Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...

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Does professional development of preschool teachers improve child socio-emotional outcomes?

Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015

From 2011 to 2013 a randomized controlled trial has been run in Danish preschools to obtain evidence on improvements of early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ),...

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The making of civic virtues : a school-based experiment in three countries

Briole, Simon; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - 2022

empowering students and gathering them around concrete and democratically chosen objectives. We draw on an RCT implemented in a …

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Outcome mechanisms for improved employment and earnings through screened job training: evidence from an RCT

Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John Barker; Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2021

program as an RCT for low-income workers. Individuals in the treatment group were more likely to work in the target industries …

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A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: evidence from a randomised controlled trial

Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021

Despite a wealth of research on its correlates, relatively little is known about how to effectively raise wellbeing in local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We conducted a randomised controlled trial of a scalable...

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Using bank savings product design for empowering women and agricultural development

Galdo, Jose - 2021

This study examines whether the random allocation of single and joint saving accounts to cash crop farmers in rural Ethiopia is associated with changes in decision-making authority and control over resources that ultimately lead to changes in labor effort, schooling allocations, income,...

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