How cash transfers can have negative impact on non-beneficiaries: Evidence from Philippines Cash transfers raised food prices and increased stunting among children from ineligible households in remote and poor areas Social Protection Deon Filmer Jed Friedman Eeshani Kandpal Junko Onishi Published 28.05.21
Information provision and street food safety: A field study in urban India While unsafe street food affects the health of millions of people, information alone may not be enough to change vendors’ food safety practices Health Gianmarco Daniele Sulagna Mookerjee Denni Tommasi Published 24.05.21
Energy efficiency and electricity reliability: Externality impacts of compact fluorescent lamps Energy-efficient technologies can mean more reliable electricity supply for everyone served by the same infrastructure whether or not they adopt the technologies Energy & Environment Eliana Carranza Robyn Meeks Published 17.05.21
Increasing female enterprise growth through mobile money: Experimental evidence from Uganda Disbursing microfinance loans through mobile money accounts empowers female entrepreneurs to resist pressure to share loans with others Finance Emma Riley Published 12.05.21
Can joint-liability microcredit help to share entrepreneurial risks? Insights from Mongolia By allowing risk sharing, joint-liability lending can foster entrepreneurship among microcredit borrowers Finance Orazio Attanasio Britta Augsburg Ralph De Haas Published 11.05.21
Helping graduated borrowers through asset-based microfinance: Evidence from Pakistan Borrowers who receive loans for a fixed asset run larger businesses and see higher profits, with positive impacts on household consumption Finance Faisal Bari Kashif Zaheer Malik Muhammad Meki Simon Quinn Published 10.05.21
How demand can inspire peer-to-peer technological learning: Evidence from small firms in Ghana Increased demand was seen to induce technology diffusion among garment workers, but willingness of both learner and the teacher is necessary Firms Morgan Hardy Jamie McCasland Published 03.05.21
How simple technologies can improve learning: Evidence from Niger Calling teachers and students once a week almost doubled the impact on reading and maths test scores of an adult education programme in Niger Education Jenny Aker Christopher Ksoll Published 19.04.21
Learning to navigate a new financial technology: Evidence from Bangladesh How do consumers learn to navigate a new financial technology? An experiment with workers from Bangladesh suggests that experience makes a difference Finance Emily Breza Martin Kanz Leora F. Klapper Published 02.04.21
