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Voter education campaigns often aim to increase voter participation and political accountability. We follow randomized interventions implemented nationwide during the 2009 Mozambican elections using a free newspaper, leaflets, and text messaging. We investigate whether treatment effects were...
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial in 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the adoption of a saving commitment product new to our study population. A random set of participants are targeted by our promotional campaign. We test whether the diffusion of the product among...
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This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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strengthened, both in terms of average effect and in terms of reduced dispersion, if weak students are systematically paired with … strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in … which peer effects unambiguously help weak students catch up with the rest of the class without imposing any learning cost …
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