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How has research featured on VoxDev used different econometric techniques? Here are some examples from recent development economics research, offering insights for students, teachers and academics.

A documentary film, shown to a majority group, portraying the daily lives, cultural practices, and socioeconomic struggles of a minority group in Bangladesh, increased prosociality and reduced complaints against the minority.

Enabling teachers to introduce pedagogical innovations can deliver substantial gains in student achievement. An experimental programme in Brazil unveils the importance of supporting teachers and accommodating the multiple constraints students face.

A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...

Deactivating multimedia on WhatsApp in Brazil consistently reduced exposure to online misinformation during the pre-election weeks in 2022, but did not impact whether false news was believed, or reduce polarisation.

Increasing women’s use of a digital financial service in Tanzania, mobile money, empowered women and led to improvements in women’s control over their finances.

Communicating tailored high teacher expectations led to large improvements in student performance in Pakistan. Providing reminders about past performance also had similar effects, particularly in environments with low parental literacy, whilst peer m...

Evidence from a large-scale trial in Bangladesh shows that improving credit access in rural areas helped farmers adapt to flood risks without negative spillovers, and was profitable for microfinance institutions.

Providing free access to all modern contraceptive products for three years in local public health centres in rural Burkina Faso had no detectable effect on birth rates, suggesting that fertility levels are in line with how many children families want...