Enterprise growth for small businesses in India led to schooling gains for children of literate parents but schooling losses for children of illiterate parents, lowering relative intergenerational mobility

Lowering the psychological cost of initiating job applications dramatically increases application rates without lowering the average return to each job application

Physical proximity to pathogen-free water sources reduces child and adult mortality

Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage

Can investments in vocational training, contrary to the existing research literature, actually improve labour market outcomes?

Why do we still see high rates of child marriage in settings such as Bangladesh, despite significant improvements in women’s economic empowerment?

Previous estimates of returns to microfinance for women are low partly because they often use it to invest in businesses that are not their own

Providing poor Indian women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led to more progressive gender norms

A series of experiments in India provide insights into ways microfinance can be refined to strengthen its impact for the world’s poorest women