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Psychological Stress of Microcredit

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2008

How does access to microcredit loans impact applicants' psychological health?

Finance
Health
Mental Health

Text Message Repayment Reminders

Region: Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2013

What is the most effective way to do loan repayment text message reminders?

Finance

Influencing Borrower Behavior through Advertising

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2010

How do different marketing schemes impact loan take-up?

Finance

Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2008

What are the most probable reasons loan clients are defaulting on loan repayments?

Finance

Impact of Microcredit

Region: Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2015

What impact does microcredit have on the lives of the poor?

Finance
Business

Evaluating Traditional Microlending

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

How does microcredit impact the lives of the borrowers?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Gender

Farmer Insurance Impacts Investment

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2013

What is the best way to help farmers invest more in their agricultural inputs?

Finance
Business
Agriculture
Insurance

Seasonal Credit Restraints

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2014

How does an interest-free loan during growing season affect household consumption and labor?

Finance
Business
Agriculture

Incentivizing Teachers

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2010

Do teacher incentives impact the performance of students?

Education

Cash for Completing Health Training

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2001

How do cash transfers conditional on preventative health services affect health outcomes?

Health
Early Childhood

Increasing Citizen Engagement and Information

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Do efforts at encouraging citizens in civic engagement, including meetings about political administration and monitoring of government officials, increase citizen and local leader cooperation?

Politics
Governance

Take-Up Effects of Microcredit

Region: Africa   Country: Morocco   Date: 2015

How does access to microcredit change village outcomes?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Aid and Health Improvement

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2014

Does providing grants based on community performance improve health and education in the community?

Education
Health
Early Childhood

Text Reminders for Malaria Treatment

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2014

Do text message reminders help malaria patients adhere to their medication treatments?

Health

Reducing Loan Officer Procrastination

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2011

What is the best way to help loan officers reduce procrastination and increase productivity?

Business
Employment / Labor

Improving Conditional Transfer Programs

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2011

What are the most effective kinds of conditional transfers to incentivize educational participation?

Education

Effects of Educational Participatory Programs

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2010

Do community meetings on educational improvement and trainings on supplemental educational techniques improve education outcomes?

Education

Effects of the Introduction of Microcredit

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

How does having access to microfinance effect people's financial outcomes?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Development by Community Choice

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2010

Does choosing development projects by election help improve project outcomes?

Politics
Infrastructure

Impact of School Management Reforms

Region: Africa   Country: Madagascar   Date: 2011

Do school management programs help students?

Education
Employment / Labor

Tracking Students Grouped by Achievement

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

Does grouping students by achievement improve their quality of education?

Education

Hiring More Local vs. Government Teachers

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

Does hiring more local teachers improve student's educational quality?

Education
Employment / Labor

Free School Meals and Attendance

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2004

Do incentives for students improve school attendance?

Education
Food Security

Impact of Free Textbooks on Student Performance

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2009

Does providing free textbooks improve student academic performance?

Education

Subsidizing Rural Women's Groups

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2004

Does subsidizing disadvantaged groups have negative implications for the disadvantaged within the group?

Agriculture

Subsidizing Non-Teacher School Inputs

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2003

How do subsidies for non-teacher school inputs help students?

Education

Using Flipcharts in Schools

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2000

What are the impacts of educational inputs on student performance?

Education

Texting Health Questions

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2013

Can text messaging be used to reduce risky sexual behavior?

Health
Communications
Reproduction

Large-Scale Sanitation Program

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Do large scale sanitation programs, like India's Total Sanitation Campaign, produce real health benefits?

Infrastructure
Sanitation

Public v. Private Lottery Winner Spending

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2008

Will lottery winners who are publically known to be winners have different spending habits than private winners?

Finance

Malaria Medication Packaging

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

Can changing packaging increase medication adherence rates?

Health

Unconditional Transfer Methods

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

What impact do truly unconditional transfers of money have on rural households?

Finance

Youth Opportunity Program Grants

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Can youth opportunity grants create human capital over time?

Employment / Labor
Industry / Trade

Dispute Resolution Workshops

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2014

Are workshops and training effective ways to improve dispute resolution?

Conflict / War / Violence

Microenterprise Support for the Ultrapoor

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

Are microenterprise support programs an effective mean of aiding the ultrapoor?

Business
Employment / Labor

Fertilizer Grants

Region: Africa   Country: Mali   Date: 2013

Are unconditional transfers of fertilizer an effective way to increase profitability and output for farmers?

Business
Agriculture

School Grants

Region: Africa   Country: Senegal   Date: 2016

Do school grants increase test scores?

Education

Entrepreneurship Training for College Students

Region: Africa   Country: Tunisia   Date: 2012

What are the impacts of an entrepreneurship track on the labor market outcomes of university graduates?

Entrepreneurship
Employment / Labor

Promoting Handwashing

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2012

Does a mass media campaign alone or combined with training have a greater impact on handwashing behavior and children's health?

Health
Early Childhood
Sanitation

Empowering Women through Local Governance

Region: South Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2012

Does promoting female empowerment through development programs affect the position of women in societies characterized by gender segregation?

Gender

Promoting Handwashing

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Viet Nam   Date: 2012

What are the effects of a handwashing mass media campaign combined with a training program on caregivers and children?

Health
Early Childhood
Sanitation

Financial Management in Migrant Households

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2012

Does a financial literacy training program for migrant workers and their families lead to better financial behavior?

Finance
Migrants

Development Projects Alter Perceptions

Region: South Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2012

Are villages that receive a development project better off than villages that did not receive a similar project?

Politics
Disaster Relief

Training Women Entrepreneurs

Region: South Asia   Country: Sri Lanka   Date: 2012

What are the effects of a entrepreneur training program for women?

Entrepreneurship
Business

Incentivizing Better Loans

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

What are the effects of incentive schemes for loan officer performance?

Finance

Financial Literacy of Migrants

Region: Australia / Oceana   Country: New Zealand   Date: 2012

What impact does financial training have on migrants?

Finance

Ordinary Savings Accounts vs. Commitment Savings Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2011

How does saving in an ordinary savings account differ from saving in a commitment savings account?

Finance

Unanticipated vs. Anticipated School Grants

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2011

Is there a difference in the impacts of an unexpected school grant and an expected school grant?

Education

Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2010

What is the impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on pregnancies among female students?

Education
Reproduction
Gender

Social Interaction and Household Investment

Region: Central America   Country: Nicaragua   Date: 2009

Do Conditional Cash Transfers combined with a program for social interaction affect investments?

Finance

School Cash Transfers and Sexual Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2009

What effect do cash transfers conditional on school attendance have on girls?

Education
Health

Impacts of School Food Programs

Region: Africa   Country: Burkina Faso   Date: 2009

What are the effects of school food programs?

Education
Health

School Access in Rural Areas

Region: Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2013

Does providing a primary school in rural areas increase children's access to school and decrease the gender gap of children enrolled in school?

Education
Gender

Immunizations for Children

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2010

Do immunization camps with food incentives increase childhood immunization rates?

Health
Early Childhood

Willingness to Pay for Water Filters

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2012

Does the take-it-or-leave-it approach encourage water filter purchase more than reverse auctions?

Health
Early Childhood
Water

Forgiveness Loans for Crops

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2010

Does risk limit investment in farmers?

Agriculture
Food Security
Insurance

Insurance and Cash Grants for Farmers

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2014

Do insurance, cash grants, or a combination of both better farmer's lives and crop production?

Agriculture
Food Security
Insurance

Financial Literacy Training

Region: Central America   Country: Dominican Republic   Date: 2014

Does a simplified financial training increase financial literacy compared to a more standard accounting training?

Finance
Business

Grants and Consulting for Small Businesses

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2014

Do cash transfers, free business consulting, or both increase the scale or the profitability small businesses?

Finance
Business

Reducing Risky Adolescent Sexual Behavior Through Education

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2006

What education-related methods decrease risky sexual behavior and the incidence of HIV/AIDS?

Education
Health
Reproduction

Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior Using Subsidies

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

Do education subsidies, HIV training, or both decrease risky sexual behavior?

Education
Health
Reproduction

Providing Housing for Slum Residents

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

Does providing low-income housing away from slums improve low-income people's lives?

Infrastructure

Peer Effects on School Enrollment

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2009

Does encouragement or friend participation improve attendance to the Bridge Course class?

Education

Hand Washing Interventions

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2015

Which interventions improve health by promoting hand-washing?

Health
Sanitation

Loan Repayment Incentives

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2011

Do incentives improve loan repayment rates?

Finance
Business

Impact of Insurance on Loan Take-Up

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2008

Does offering insurance with a loan as a package increase loan take-up?

Finance
Agriculture
Food Security
Insurance

Identifying Good and Bad Borrowers by Fingerprints

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2012

Does fingerprinting borrowers improve their loan repayment behaviors?

Finance

Paying Farmers Through Bank Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2015

What kinds of payment methods increase farmer well-being?

Finance

Technology Adoption with Financial Incentives

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2016

Which programs improve the lives of farmers?

Finance
Agriculture

Multifaceted Approach to Poverty Alleviation

Region:    Country: Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, Peru   Date: 2015

Does a multifaceted approach to poverty improve quality of life?

Entrepreneurship
Health
Employment / Labor
Mental Health

Income Timing Matters

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

Do the timing and frequency of paychecks impact how people save and spend?

Finance
Employment / Labor

Access to Foreign Markets

Region: Africa   Country: Egypt   Date: 2015

Does access to foreign markets improve business outcomes?

Business
Employment / Labor
Industry / Trade

Improving Sanitation Through Subsidies

Region: Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2015

Does community motivation, health information, or removing market barriers reduce open defecation?

Health
Sanitation

Spring Protection Improves Health

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

Does community spring protection improve health outcomes?

Health
Sanitation
Water

Farmers Accessing International Markets

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2008

Does improving access to international markets improve farmers' livelihoods?

Agriculture
Industry / Trade

Access to Savings Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2013

Do savings accounts improve the financial status of the poor?

Finance

Training Impacts for Ex-Fighters

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2015

What is the impact of intensive agricultural training programs on monthly earnings?

Conflict / War / Violence
Employment / Labor

Better Houses Improve Well-being

Region:    Country: El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay   Date: 2014

Does improved housing improve quality of life for the poor?

Infrastructure
Mental Health

Savings Reduces Risk Aversion

Region: Asia   Country: Nepal   Date: 2015

How does access to savings accounts impact people's risk and time preferences?

Finance

Finding Underreported Illicit Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2014

Can training enumerators help determine if subjects underreport illicit behavior?

Conflict / War / Violence

Decreasing Vote-Selling with Commitments

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2015

Which method works best for reducing the effects vote-buying for local elections?

Corruption
Politics

Increasing Adoption of Mosquito Nets

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

Do subsidies for health products increase long-term utilization?

Health

Non-Financial Rewards Motivate Sellers

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2014

What are the best ways to motivate the sale of condoms?

Health
Employment / Labor

Borrowers Manage Money Better

Region: Africa   Country: Mali   Date: 2014

Do people who take out loans spend their money more wisely than debt avoiders?

Finance
Agriculture

Effects of Automatic Payroll Deductions and Matching Rates on Savings

Region: South Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2016

Do matching savings rates or automatic enrollment in savings programs increase savings?

Finance
Communications
Employment / Labor

Performance Pay for Tax Collectors

Region: South Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2015

How can government increase tax collector efficiency?

Public Sector Management
Employment / Labor

Advice and Money for Small Businesses

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2014

Do large unconditional grants and/or professional business consulting increase investments?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Employment / Labor

Cash and Capital Transfers for Entrepreneurs

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2013

Which type of unconditional transfer helps small businesses grow the most?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Reward Interest Rates Effects on Savings

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2014

Does a higher interest rate or a reward interest rate influence how much people save?

Finance

Effects of Grants on Firm Size and Profits

Region: Africa   Country: Nigeria   Date: 2015

Does winning a large grant improve business in the long-run?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Employment / Labor

Fulfilling Forestry Contracts and Public Subsidy Allocation Effectiveness

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2013

Are contractors who bid to win the contract instead of contractors chosen by lottery more likely to be successful in planting and tending trees?

Agriculture
Natural Resources
Environment

The Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2015

Do public screenings of debates improve voter education?

Public Sector Management
Politics
Politicians

Best Microenterprise Practices for Ultrapoor in Postwar Zones

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

What are some best practices for developing small personal businesses for the ultrapoor in postwar zones?

Education
Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Information, Convenience and Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2012

Do formal savings increase with more convenience or more information?

Finance

Unsupervised Grants to Young Entrepreneurs

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2013

Do unsupervised grants improve an entrepreneur's business in the long-run?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Different Mechanisms for Health Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2013

Which savings mechanism helps members of a ROSCA (Rotating Savings and Credit Associations) save for health emergencies?

Finance
Health
Insurance

Flood-Tolerant Rice

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

Can flood-resistant rice varieties increase rice production in flood-prone areas?

Agriculture
Food Security

Flood-Tolerant Rice Yields

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Can flood-resistant rice varieties increase rice production in flood-prone areas?

Agriculture
Food Security

Computer-Generated Credit Scoring

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2013

What is the impact of access to computerized credit scoring on credit committees?

Finance
Business

Pre-schools and Early Childhood Development

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Cambodia   Date: 2014

What is the impact of additional pre-school on children's development?

Education
Early Childhood

Home Based HIV Testing and Counseling

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

What is the impact of providing home based HIV testing and counseling on participants' risky sexual behavior?

Health

Using Media to Change Political Norms

Region: Africa   Country: Rwanda   Date: 2009

What is the impact of media on social norms regarding deference to authority?

Conflict / War / Violence
Politics
Communications

Efficiently Targeting Public Programs

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2013

How might we more efficiently target potential recipients of public programs?

Public Sector Management
Environment

Local Leaders and Provision of Public Goods

Region: South America   Country: Bolivia   Date: 2014

How can we incentivize people to donate to the provision of public goods?

Education
Public Sector Management
Politicians
Environment

Efficient Deployment of Police Resources

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Which policing strategies are the most effective at preventing drunk driving and traffic accidents?

Conflict / War / Violence
Public Sector Management
Transportation

Public Deliberation and Voting Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Benin   Date: 2011

What is the impact of town hall meetings on the vote share of the candidate when holding town hall meetings in a village where he or she is not dominant?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians
Governance

Helping Microfinance Borrowers Save

Region: Central America   Country: Guatemala   Date: 2013

How do behavioral interventions and reminders impact borrowers' ability to save money?

Finance

Paper Trails for Tax Enforcement

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2013

How does the paper trail created by Value Added Tax (VAT) systems impact tax evasion?

Public Sector Management
Finance
Business
Corruption

Improving Tax Audit Strategies

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2014

Does making an audit seem more likely reduce tax evasion?

Public Sector Management
Finance

Subsidies and Technology Adoption

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2014

How can we increase technology adoption among farmers?

Agriculture

Strategic Household Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

What encourages households to save more efficiently?

Finance

Microfinance: Adding a Grace Period

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does offering a grace period to microfinance clients before beginning repayment allow entrepreneurs to invest more in their businesses?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Financial Literacy Course Incentives

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2014

How can we encourage more people to attend financial literacy courses?

Finance

Messages to Encourage Recycling

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2013

How can we best encourage people in developing countries to recycle?

Communications
Environment

Community-Based Monitoring of Health Workers

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2009

What is the best way to decrease deaths from preventable diseases?

Health
Early Childhood

Gender Differences in Cookstove Preferences

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2013

How can we encourage the adoption of "clean" stoves with fewer emissions than traditional stoves?

Health
Gender

Reshaping Institutions

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2011

How does empowering groups in decision making affect local affairs?

Politics
Infrastructure
Governance
Gender

Commitment Contracts to Quit Smoking

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2010

Do voluntary commitment contracts help individuals quit smoking?

Finance
Health

Access to Savings Accounts and Microenterprise Development

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2013

Does limited access to formal savings services impede business growth in poor countries?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Minority Leaders and Public Good Allocation

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2005

Does requiring village councils to reserve seats for minorities services to minority areas?

Public Sector Management
Politics
Politicians

Moral Hazard and Fertility Decisions

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2014

How does a spouse's approval influence the likelihood of a woman to receive contraceptives?

Health
Reproduction

Child Health Education to Improve Childhood Health

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2011

Does health education for parents improve the health of their children?

Education
Health
Early Childhood

Improving Police Management

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Can management reforms improve police performance?

Public Sector Management

Parent Empowerment and School Quality

Region: Africa   Country: Niger   Date: 2015

Does community power over school management and spending decisions improve school quality?

Education

Cash Transfers for Education

Region: Africa   Country: Morocco   Date: 2015

How do cash transfers given to parents influence student attendance?

Education

Consulting Service for Small and Medium Enterprises

Region: Central America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2013

Do consulting services help small and medium enterprises?

Entrepreneurship
Business

The Benefit of Savings Groups for Women

Region: Africa   Country: Mali   Date: 2014

Do savings groups benefit women, their businesses, or households?

Finance

School Uniform Distribution and Children's Education

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2009

How do free uniforms influence primary school students?

Education

Water Connection Loans and Household Outcomes

Region: Africa   Country: Morocco   Date: 2012

Will encouragement to join a water connection loan program improve a household's quality of life?

Water

Targeting the Poor

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2012

What is the best way to identify and target the poor for poverty reducing programs?

Public Sector Management

Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2011

Does offering conditional cash transfers to those who maintain HIV-negative status influence sexual behavior?

Health

Micro-Entrepreneurs and Financial Literacy

Region: North America   Country: Dominican Republic   Date: 2013

What type of training helps micro-entrepreneurs succeed in their businesses?

Education
Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Commitment to Quit Smoking

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2010

What is the best way to help people quit smoking?

Health

Incentivizing Immunization Coverage

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2010

What is the best way to motivate parents to fully immunize their children?

Health

Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

How can the rate of HIV infection in teenagers be reduced?

Education
Health

Health Insurance Education and Enrollment

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2013

How can we best encourage people to enroll in universal health care plans?

Education
Health

Online Sex Education

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2013

How can we improve sexual health?

Education
Health

Facilitating Savings for Agriculture

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2015

Can giving savings accounts to farmers have significant economic impact?

Finance
Agriculture

Reminders for Commitments to Save

Region:    Country: Bolivia, Peru, Philippines   Date: 2014

Does receiving text message reminders help people make more deposits?

Finance

Demand for Financial Services

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2011

Do financial literacy training and financial incentives lead to more individuals having bank accounts?

Finance

Commitment Savings Accounts

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2015

What is the best way to encourage households to save money for foreseeable expenses rather than take out loans?

Finance

Community Contracts with Clinics

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2009

Does a community contract increase health clinic accountability and community accessibility?

Public Sector Management
Health

Less Frequent Loan Payments

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2008

Are borrowers on a monthly repayment plan more likely to make late payments compared to borrowers on the weekly repayment plan?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Loan Grace Period and Economic Activity

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does giving a longer grace period result in increased economic activity for borrowers?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Women Training with Friends Increased Business Outcomes

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Are women who receive business training with a friend more likely to start or expand their business compared to women who receive the training alone?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Gender

Independent Auditors Decreased Pollution in Plants

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Are independent auditors more effective and truthful than auditors hired by the audited firm?

Environment
Industry / Trade

Incentivizing Farmers to Purchase Insurance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

What is the best way to get farmers to purchase crop insurance?

Agriculture
Insurance
Water

The Effectiveness of Reading Comprehension Lessons 

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2009

Do wholistic reading programs inside or outside of school increase preschool students' ability to comprehend stories?

Education
Early Childhood

Unconditional Transfers for the Ultra-Poor

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2016

Do unconditional livestock transfers plus training and financial support help the ultra-poor improve their situation?

Business
Employment / Labor

Contract and Civil Service Teachers' Effectiveness

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does a school having an extra contract teacher improve students' learning and school quality?

Education

The Effect of Girls' Clubs on Socioeconomic Indicators

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Can after school clubs for girls improve their socioeconomic status?

Education
Health
Reproduction
Gender

Short-Term Group and Individual Teacher Incentives

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2011

Do individual and/or group performance-based teacher bonuses improve student performance?

Education

Long-Term Group and Individual Teacher Incentives

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2011

Do individual and/or group performance-based teacher bonuses improve student performance?

Education

Conditional Payments for School Attendance

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2011

Does varying the timing of attendance payments increase student engagement during and after graduation?

Education

Politician Report Cards

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2011

Does a politician report card improve elections by improving voter knowledge and decreasing bribes?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians

Incentivising Safe Sex through Cash Transfers

Region: Africa   Country: Tanzania   Date: 2012

Can cash transfers conditional on sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing incentivize young adults to practice safe sex?

Health
Reproduction

Encouraging Fertilizer Use with Timing, Subsidies, and Free Delivery

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2009

What interventions are most effective in improving fertilizer use among farmers?

Agriculture
Food Security

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2010

What is the best way to increase local involvement in participatory programs?

Education
Public Sector Management

Savings in Transnational Households

Region: South America   Country: El Salvador, United States   Date: 2014

What is the best way to stimulate savings by international migrants in their origin country?

Finance
Migrants

Reminders and Financial Incentives for Loan Repayment

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2011

How can we best encourage people to repay their loans?

Finance

Business Training for the Entrepreneurial Poor

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2011

How can business training improve the success of microcredit groups?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Impacts of Health Education on Children's Health Outcomes

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2011

What is the best way to prevent childhood illness?

Finance
Health

Impact of Deposit Collectors on Savings

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2006

How can we increase the amount people save?

Finance

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

What is the effect of education subsidies on educational attainment, pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease?

Education
Health

Learning Through Exposure vs Recommendations in Seaweed Farming

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2014

What is the best way to encourage technology adoption among farmers?

Business
Agriculture

Internal Institutional Reform for Police Performance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

How can we improve police performance and the public's perception of the police?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Politics
Governance

Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2010

How effective are decentralization and community involvement in improving the infrastructure in marginalized areas?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Politics
Infrastructure
Governance

Impact of Hiring Contract Teachers

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

How can we best respond to the influx of new students in primary schools to meet growing needs?

Education
Governance

Impact of Tracking on Test Scores

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

Does dividing students by achievement increase student performance?

Education

Sustainable Approaches to Deworming

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2007

How can we best encourage continued deworming treatment to prevent worm infection from worms?

Health

Anemia and School Participation

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2006

What is the best way to decrease anemia rates among children?

Health
Early Childhood

Student Evalutation Programs and Education Outcomes

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

How do different student evaluation programs affect education outcomes?

Education

Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers for Education

Region: South America   Country: Nicaragua   Date: 2014

How do conditional cash transfer programs help boy students in the long run?

Education

Youth Wage Subsidies

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2014

Do wage vouchers help youth with employment?

Employment / Labor

Incentives for Volunteers

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2013

How do incentives affect volunteer participation in selling condoms?

Health
Employment / Labor

Influence of Property Rights on Grazing

Region: Africa   Country: Namibia   Date: 2009

In a game setting, does grazing intensity change depending on selfish or cooperative people getting property rights?

Agriculture
Natural Resources

Increasing Efficient Adoption of Products

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

Do alternative payment options increase the purchase of stoves?

Health

Subsidies for Rural Connections to Electricity Grid

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

How does demand for electricity react to changes in price?

Infrastructure
Energy

Long-term Effects of Deworming

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

What long-term effects does deworming have on children?

Education
Health
Employment / Labor
Early Childhood

Promoting Sanitation with Shame

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2015

Does a health lesson framed with disgust and shame increase healthier practices?

Health
Sanitation
Water

Effects of Marketing Messages on Bid Price

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Do marketing messages increase willingness to pay for health-improving products?

Finance
Health

Elections and Legitimate Governments

Region: South Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2014

Does reducing voter fraud increase the confidence in government among constituents that live near polling booths?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians

Increasing HIV Testing

Region: Africa   Country: Rwanda   Date: 2013

Do performance-based financial incentives for health centers increase HIV testing?

Health

Psychosocial Stimulation for Growth-Stunted Children

Region: North America   Country: Jamaica   Date: 2013

Does psychosocial stimulation of growth-stunted children improve their lives?

Education
Health
Employment / Labor
Early Childhood

Better Auditing Reduces Pollution

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

How can pollution be reduced in developing nations?

Corruption
Environment

Effects of Improved Cookstoves

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2012

Does the use of improved cookstoves provide environmental benefits through diminished consumption of wood and production of fuel-waste?

Health
Environment

Community-Driven Conflict Recovery

Region: Africa   Country: Democratic Republic of Congo   Date: 2014

What are the effects of a large-scale community-driven reconstruction program?

Conflict / War / Violence

Medication SMS Reminder System

Region: Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2015

Do SMS reminder systems contribute to higher medical treatment success rates?

Health
Communications

Long-term Benefits of Educational Cash Transfers

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2015

How do money transfers conditional on school attendance affect girls' well-being 5 years after the money was given?

Education
Finance

Cash/Food Transfers and Childhood Development

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

Does a transfer of some kind (cash or food) improve childhood development outcomes?

Finance
Early Childhood
Food Security

Upgrading Slum Housing Infrastructure

Region: Central America   Country: Mexico, Uruguay   Date: 2015

What impact does improved housing have on those living in poor housing conditions?

Infrastructure

Farmer Training and Fertilizer Use

Region: Asia   Country: China   Date: 2015

Does a field school designed to train farmers improve agriculture outcomes?

Agriculture

Mobile Banking Fees

Region: South Asia   Country: Sri Lanka   Date: 2013

Would a mobile banking deposit system be useful to impoverished populations?

Finance
Communications

Impact of Childhood Development Centers

Region: South America   Country: Brazil   Date: 2016

Does child chare center attendance improve early childhood physical and cognitive development?

Early Childhood

Business Training for Women

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Viet Nam   Date: 2015

Does providing training to female microfinance clients improve their success?

Business
Finance Products

Community Mobilization and Violence Against Women

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2015

Does information, education, and community mobilization decrease male control of and violence against women?

Conflict / War / Violence
Health
Reproduction

Cash/Food Transfers and Spousal Violence

Region: Central America   Country: Ecuador   Date: 2016

Do food, cash, or voucher transfers decrease the number of women reporting spousal violence or abuse?

Mental Health

Water Sanitation and Hand Washing in Slums

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2015

What effects do different sanitation campaigns have on santitation in a community?

Education
Health
Sanitation
Water

Getting the Poor to Use Banks

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2015

Do different loan requirements influence debtor financial behavior?

Finance

Debt Repayment Reminders

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2015

What kind of reminders help people repay their debts?

Finance

Business Registration Trainings

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2015

Does training on business formalization encourage businesses to register with the government?

Public Sector Management
Entrepreneurship
Business

Voter Involvement

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2015

Do town hall meetings with party representatives influence voting behavior?

Public Sector Management
Politicians

Reducing Open Defecation in Rural Areas

Region:    Country: India, Indonesia, Mali, Tanzania   Date: 2015

Does the Community-Led Total Sanitation program improve child health?

Health
Sanitation

Goal Setting and Vaccinations

Region: South Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2016

Does encouraging health workers to set goals increase the number of children vaccinated?

Public Sector Management
Health

Training Drug Shop Owners to Diagnose Malaria

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2015

Does offering drug store owners malaria rapid diagnostic test training and subsidizing the tests improve malaria diagnostic rates and increase the incidences of being given appropriate medicine?

Health

Default Savings Program

Region: Middle East   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2016

Do default savings programs increase financial stability and willingness to save compared to matching savings programs?

Finance

Community and Household Conditional Transfer Programs

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2016

Do community or household conditional transfer programs improve maternal health?

Education
Public Sector Management
Health

Cash and Voucher Transfer Programs

Region: Africa   Country: Democratic Republic of Congo   Date: 2014

Are unconditional cash transfers or unconditional voucher transfers more effective?

Public Sector Management
Health
Refugees

Mobile Phone Use in Adult Education

Region: Africa   Country: Niger   Date: 2012

Does including a mobile phone component to adult education courses improve student's education?

Education

Mobile Phone and Cash Transfers

Region: Africa   Country: Niger   Date: 2015

Do mobile cash transfer or physical cash transfer systems increase quality of life for vulnerable populations?

Finance

Farmer's Preferences in Selling

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

Does offering a bonus or bonus and the option to get paid immediately or at the end of the month to dairy farmers if they sell to the coop in the afternoon increase the amount of milk sold to the coop?

Finance
Business

Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Nepal   Date: 2010

Do peers have a role in menstrual cup take-up?

Education
Health

Sanitary Products for Increasing School Attendance

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Nepal   Date: 2011

Will girls' school attendance increase if they are given sanitary products?

Education
Health

Health Insurance for Informal Workers

Region: Central America   Country: Nicaragua   Date: 2009

What effect does providing health insurance to informal workers have on their healthcare?

Health
Insurance

Merit-Based Girls' Scholarship Program

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2009

Does offering a merit-based scholarship for girls provide an effective incentive to learn?

Education
Gender

Economic Impact of Learning HIV Status

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2012

Does learning HIV status (positive or negative) affect economic behavior?

Finance
Health

HIV Testing and Marriage Stability

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2011

What impact does learning HIV status and counseling have on marriages?

Health
Reproduction

HIV Testing and Sexual Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2008

How do monetary incentives for learning HIV test results impact HIV knowledge and sexual behavior?

Health

Tutoring Program in Primary Schools

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2007

How do tutoring and computer-assisted learning programs affect learning outcomes for struggling students?

Education

Teenagers Prevention Campaign against HIV

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

Do teenagers respond to HIV risk information?

Health

Teacher Accountability

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Does paying teachers based on attendance increase school quality?

Education

Business Training for Loan Groups

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2011

Does business training in loan groups improve business practices and quality of life?

Finance
Gender

Commitment Devices' Impact on Female Empowerment

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2006

Do savings commitment devices benefit those with self-control or familial control issues?

Finance
Gender

Commitment Devices' Impact on Spending

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2009

Do commitment savings devices or direct marketing increase spending?

Finance
Gender

Commitment Devices for Bank Accounts

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2006

Does a commitment bank account or marketing visit increase savings?

Finance

Anemia and School Participation

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2006

Is a school-based health program and effective way to increase school attendance?

Education
Health

Social Interactions in Loan Repayment Groups

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Do weekly group meetings, where group members make loan payments, improve social ties and loan repayment rates?

Finance

Subsidy Information Cards

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2016

Does providing information cards about subsidized rice reduce leakage in subsidized rice programs?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Communications
Food Security

Privatizing Government Services

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2015

Does privatizing government distribution of subsidized rice improve the efficiency of the program?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Food Security

ATM Card's Impact on Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2013

Does providing a free ATM card increase the use of a savings account?

Finance

Short-term Interest Rates on Long-term Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

Do higher initial interest rates for savings accounts change long-term savings behavior?

Finance

Framing Debt Feedback

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2014

Does providing financial information improve a client's banking behavior?

Finance

Rain Insurance Effects on Cash and Subsistence Crops

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does rainfall insurance shift farmers' behavior towards favoring cash crops?

Agriculture
Insurance

The Effect of Female Politicans on Children's Learning

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does reserving government council seats for women improve children's learning outcomes in the long-term?

Education
Public Sector Management
Politicians
Early Childhood
Gender

Short-term Credit's Impact on Farmers

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2014

Does access to credit in the form of food increase the farmer's ability to meet short-term consumption needs without sacrificing their farm labor?

Finance
Employment / Labor
Agriculture

SMS Messages' Role in Civic Engagement

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

Does sending informative SMS messages to registered voters increase civic engagement?

Public Sector Management
Politics
Communications

The Effect of Relationships on Loan Repayment

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Does building a personal relationship with borrowers improve loan repayment behavior?

Finance

Knowledge about Development Aid and Politician Approval

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2014

Does knowing the source of development aid impact constituents' image of local politicians?

Politicians
Sanitation

Incentivizing Use of Savings Accounts

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2014

Does offering a high interest rate or a reward interest rate increase the use of savings accounts?

Finance

Fair Election Impacts on Government Legitimacy

Region: Middle East   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2014

Does announcing that researchers will compare election returns to official results increase civic duty and belief in government?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Politics

Smart Phone Monitoring and Health Staff Productivity

Region: South Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2014

Does smart phone monitoring increase productivity of health service inspectors?

Health
Corruption
Politics

Effectiveness of Online Sex Education

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2017

Does an online sex education course promote safe sexual behavior?

Education
Health
Reproduction

Financial Education and Savings Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

What are the financial effects of receiving financial education or starting a savings account?

Finance

Informational Messages and Recycling Participation

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2013

Do sending text messages and giving out recycling bins lead to people recycling more?

Sanitation

Impact of Cash Transfers During Climatic Shocks

Region: Central America   Country: Nicaragua   Date: 2012

Do conditional cash transfers lessen the negative impacts of a climatic shock?

Disaster Relief
Food Security

Impacts of Savings on Preventative Healthcare

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2013

Does the introduction of a savings commitment device have positive effects on individual healthcare?

Finance
Health

Cash Transfers and School Enrollment

Region: Central America   Country: Honduras   Date: 2011

What are the effects of education and health conditional cash transfer programs directed towards children?

Education

Debates and Voting Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2016

What are the effects of political debates within a developing country?

Politics
Politicians

Long-term Impact of Vocational Training

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2015

What are the long term effects of a vocational training program for young adults?

Education
Employment / Labor

Vocational Training for Youth

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2011

What are the effects of a vocational training for youth from the lowest socioeconomic class?

Education
Employment / Labor

Cash Transfers and Deforestation

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

Does deforestation decrease when an environmental conditional cash transfer program is introduced among private forest owners?

Environment

Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers

Region: Central America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2014

Do transfer programs impact prices within local markets?

Insufficient Change and Lost Sales

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

Does receiving information about lost sales due to insufficient change influence the way owners run their businesses?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Saving for Education with Strong or Weak Commitments

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

What are the benefits of financial commitment devices for students?

Education

Effective Distribution of Public Health Subsidies

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2016

What methods are effective at distributing health products to eligible individuals?

Health
Corruption

HIV Testing Effects

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

How do free health counseling and tests prevent the spread of HIV?

Health
Reproduction

Community-Driven Development and Social Capital

Region: Africa   Country: Sudan   Date: 2014

Do community-driven development programs increase people's involvement in their communities?

Public Sector Management

Malaria Treatment for Children

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

How do intermittent screenings and treatments (IST) improve education?

Education
Health

Financial Education Program for High School Students

Region: South America   Country: Brazil   Date: 2013

How does a class to teach financial skills to children improve fianances?

Education
Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Helping Outgoing Migrants Find Work

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2013

How do different resources help those who wish to work abroad?

Finance
Migrants
Employment / Labor

Toilets for Sanitation

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Does the Total Sanitation Campaign succeed in promoting more sanitary behavior?

Health
Sanitation
Water

Incentivizing School Performance

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Cambodia   Date: 2013

How do scholarships improve learning outcomes?

Education

Vocational Training and Gender

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2013

How do apprenticeships help male and female youth prepare for businesses?

Education
Employment / Labor

Rainfall Insurance and Planting Decisions

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

How does farmer insurance influence planting decisions?

Agriculture
Disaster Relief
Natural Resources

Consulting for Medium-sized Businesses

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2013

Does business consulting help small and medium sized businesses grow?

Entrepreneurship
Business

Formalizing Firms

Region: South America   Country: Brazil   Date: 2013

Does information on formalization improve business formalization rates?

Public Sector Management
Business

Voluntary Financial Education

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2013

How do different incentives get people to attend financial knowledge courses?

Education
Finance
Business

Business Formalization Information Campaign

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2013

Does providing information help businesses register?

Public Sector Management
Finance

Community Sanitation Program

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2013

Does a community lead sanitation program actually improve sanitation?

Sanitation

Local Accountability

Region: Africa   Country: Democratic Republic of Congo   Date: 2013

Does Tuungane increase school attendance on average?

Public Sector Management
Politics

Increasing Female Voting Turnout

Region: South Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2011

Do information campaigns help to increase female voter turnout?

Politics

Cash and Toy Incentives for School

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Do money, toy, or voucher incentives incentives influence children's education outcomes?

Education

Impact of Subsidies and Information on Health Purchases

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2013

Does providing information about health products influence the impact of price subsidies on purchases?

Health
Sanitation
Water

Contracting Health Services

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Cambodia   Date: 2007

Are outside contractors for health services more effective than government-run programs?

Public Sector Management
Health

Cash Transfers for Family Investment

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2012

Do conditional cash transfer programs improve quality of life among the poor?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Group and Individual Loans

Region: Asia   Country: Mongolia   Date: 2015

Do individual and/or group loans improve the livelihoods of borrowers?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Microfinance Loans for Women

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2015

Does microfinance availability increase the quality of life among women?

Finance
Gender

Cash Incentives for Safe Sex

Region: Africa   Country: Tanzania   Date: 2012

Do conditional cash transfer programs reduce STI prevalence?

Health

Free Savings Accounts Effects on Saving

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

Does access to free bank accounts change social and personal savings behavior?

Finance

Impact of Performance-Based Pay on Healthcare Quality

Region: Africa   Country: Democratic Republic of Congo   Date: 2015

Does performance-based pay increase the quality of and access to healthcare?

Health

Impact of Block Grants on Student Test Scores

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Do block grants improve students' learning?

Education
Public Sector Management

Low-stake Feedback on School Performance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2010

Does providing feedback on teaching effectiveness in a low-risk environment increase students' learning?

Education

The Effects of Mother-Child Interaction on Cognitive Skills

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2015

Do home visits encouraging maternal-child interactions improve the development of children?

Early Childhood

The Effects of Learning Activites and Supplements on Child Development

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2014

Do home visits, micronutrient supplements, or both increase children's physical and mental development?

Early Childhood

The Effects of Learning Activities and Supplements on the Health of Children

Region: South America   Country: Colombia   Date: 2016

Does psychosocial stimulation, micronutrient supplements, or both increase children's health?

Early Childhood

The Effect of Recruiters on Women's Training and Career Choices

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Do informational sessions on employment opportunities given by recruiters in rural villages affect women's career and family chocies?

Employment / Labor
Gender

Performance Pay for Anemia Reduction

Region: Asia   Country: China   Date: 2013

What are the best interventions in schools to help lower anemia rates in children?

Health
Early Childhood

Maternal Literacy Impacts Child Learning

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

What kinds of interventions best help the learning of children and their mothers?

Education
Early Childhood

Effects of Quality Pre-Schools

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2012

Do community-based pre-school centers have better outcomes than traditional pre-schools?

Education
Early Childhood

Availability of Chlorinated Water

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

What is the best way to implement community financing for communal chlorine dispensers?

Sanitation
Water

The Effectiveness of E-Governance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

Can e-governance reduce corruption and costs of public employment programs?

Public Sector Management
Corruption
Governance
Employment / Labor

Expanding Secondary Education

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2015

Does providing scholarships for secondary school promote higher cognitive abilities in male students?

Education
Reproduction

Centralized Training for Farmers 

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2014

What is the best way to improve the classic training and visit model to help farmers implement better agricultural methods?

Infrastructure
Agriculture

Community-Driven Development

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2013

Does community-driven development have a substantial impact on communities?

Public Sector Management
Infrastructure
Governance

Helping Farmers with Seasonal Volatilities

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2014

Which methods help farmers deal with seasonal volatilities?

Agriculture
Insurance

Daycare Programs and Maternal Well-Being

Region: Central America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2014

How do daycare programs impact children and mothers or caregivers?

Health
Employment / Labor
Early Childhood

Business Training and Cash Transfers for the Poor

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2016

What is the best kind of microentrepreneurship model to increase employment and income long term?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Employment / Labor

Performance Pay for Tax Collectors

Region: Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2014

Does paying tax collectors based on performance decrease customer satisfaction?

Public Sector Management
Finance
Governance

Credit Program for Tenant Farmers

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2015

Will microfinance programs have a positive impact on the poorest tenant farmers?

Finance
Agriculture
Food Security

Pre-University Test Preparation Scholarships

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2016

What is the best way to help secondary students do well on college entrance exams?

Education

Nutrition Training from Social Networks

Region: Africa   Country: Burkina Faso   Date: 2014

What impact do social networks have on the effectiveness of nutrition and agricultural trainings?

Health
Early Childhood

Sanitation Interventions and Latrine Coverage

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

How can we prevent diarrhea through sanitation interventions?

Health
Sanitation

Impact of Subsidizing Improved Stoves

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2016

What long-run impact does improving cooking stoves have on health and pollution?

Health
Natural Resources
Environment
Energy

Overcoming Barriers to Saving

Region: South America   Country: Bolivia, Peru, Philippines   Date: 2014

What is the best way to help people make savings deposits?

Finance

Participation In Deposit Collection

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2005

What is an effective way to help households save more money?

Finance

Expanding Credit to the Marginally Creditworthy

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2009

What impact does expanding credit access to the marginally creditworthy have on health of applicant and profitability for lender?

Finance
Food Security
Mental Health

Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2010

What impact does increased access to microcredit have on households choosing to use formal insurance and risk management mechanisms?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Employment / Labor

Long Run Malaria Net Adoption

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

Do malaria net subsidies lead to willingness to pay for malaria nets in the long term?

Health
Early Childhood

Subsidized Malaria Nets for Pregnant Mothers

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2010

What impact do differing levels of subsidies have on take-up of insecticide treated nets by expecting mothers?

Health
Early Childhood
Reproduction

Water Source Protection for Water Quality

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

What impact does cleaning a natural spring have on water contamination, diarrhea, and household behaviors?

Health
Sanitation
Water

Impact of Female Policy Makers

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2004

What impact does reserving leadership for females have on the provision of public goods?

Politics
Politicians
Governance

Perceptions of Female Leaders

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2009

How does exposure to female leadership affect bias against female leadership?

Politics
Politicians
Governance

Returns on Fertilizer

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2008

What is the most efficient use of fertilizer?

Agriculture
Food Security

Farmers' Fertilizer Usage

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2011

What is the best way to help farmers invest in fertilizer?

Agriculture
Food Security

Perceived Returns to Education and Schooling Demands

Region: Central America   Country: Dominican Republic   Date: 2012

How important are the returns to education in determining schooling decisions?

Education

Mobile Information and Agricultural Outcomes

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

How does agricultural information delivered by mobile phones influence productivity?

Agriculture

Marketing Rainfall Insurance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2011

Can education and marketing techniques increase purchase of rainfall insurance?

Agriculture
Insurance

The Benefits of Mother Literacy and Participation Programs

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2015

Are mother literacy and child involvement programs beneficial to mothers and children?

Education

Management Consulting and Firm Performance

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

Can differences in management practices across firms explain differences in productivity?

Business

Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets and Malaria Prevalence

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

What is the impact of the alternative insecticide-traded bed net delivery mechanisms on different malaria indicators?

Finance
Health

Risk Messages and Arsenic Mitigation 

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2013

Do different types of warnings have an impact on whether people switch to safe water sources?

Health
Water

The Impact of Microcredit and Family Planning Programs on Contraceptive Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Ethiopia   Date: 2009

How do community-based family planning programs and access to credit impact contraceptive use, fertility, and family size preferences?

Finance
Health
Reproduction

Youth Vocational Training

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2013

What are the effects of vocational training on youth?

Employment / Labor

High Quality Medicine Driving Out Poor Quality Medicine

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2016

How does the entry of a retailer selling high quality medicine affect markets where poor quality medicine is prevalent?

Business
Health
Industry / Trade

Conditional Cash Transfers to Prevent HIV/AIDS

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2012

Do conditional cash transfer programs help prevent HIV/AIDS?

Health
Reproduction

Self-Targeting for Cash Transfers

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2016

What is the most effective way to target the poor for conditional cash transfer programs?

Finance

Voucher Coupons for Fertilizer

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2013

How might providing vouchers increase farmers' adoption of fertilizer and improved seeds?

Agriculture

Price Promotions for Cleaner Cookstoves

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2012

How do subsidies impact interest in and purchases of improved cooking stoves?

Health
Natural Resources
Environment

Family Networks and Schooling Outcomes

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2009

Do connected or isolated families benefit greater from educational incentives?

Education

Managing Seasonal Famine through Migration

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2014

How does encouraging seasonal migration impact household's ability to thrive during the hungry season?

Migrants
Employment / Labor
Food Security

Social Learning for Sustainable Farming

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

What is the impact on farmers of providing agricultural training through different types of trainers?

Agriculture

Upgrading Housing Infrastructure

Region: Central America   Country: El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay   Date: 2014

Does improved housing in slum areas impact more than just the quality of housing?

Health
Infrastructure
Sanitation
Water

Sexual Information Texting Service

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2013

What is the impact of providing better access to sexual and reproductive health information on reproductive knowledge and behavior?

Health
Reproduction

Subsidizing Medical Male Circumcision

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

What is the demand for male circumcision procedures at various subsidized rates?

Health
Reproduction

HIV and Circumcision Information Distribution

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

What is the impact of providing information about male circumcision and HIV risk on males' sexual behavior and perceptions?

Health
Reproduction

Subsidizing Malaria Treatment and Testing

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

Does subsidizing malaria medication at different levels lead to better targeting of malaria patients and less under and over treatment?

Health

Monitoring Public Health Worker Attendance

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

What is the best way to improve health care worker attendance?

Public Sector Management
Health
Governance

Conditional Cash Transfers and Child Development

Region: Central America   Country: Nicaragua   Date: 2013

Does the timing of conditional cash transfers impact the development of the sons in recipient families?

Education
Health
Early Childhood

Transparency in Life Insurance Advice

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2013

How does transparency of life insurance policy commissions impact the quality of recommendations given by life insurance agents?

Business
Corruption
Insurance
Industry / Trade

Peer Groups and Savings Accounts

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2012

How do self-help peer groups or high interest rates on savings accounts impact savings behavior?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Effects of Free Savings Accounts

Region: South America   Country: Chile   Date: 2013

How does offering free savings accounts impact consumption, borrowing, and financial confidence?

Finance
Business

Incentives and Seasonal Migration

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2014

How can we help poor households cope with seasonal famine?

Migrants
Health
Employment / Labor
Agriculture
Food Security

Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2008

What is the best way to encourage farmers to adopt new crop technology?

Finance
Agriculture

Small Change in Small Firms

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

How can surveys and information encourage increase awareness of the importance of keeping small change on hand and increase profits?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Competent Candidate Election and Policy Preferences

Region: Asia   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2014

Do the style of elections effect the amount of competent politicians in government?

Public Sector Management
Politics
Politicians
Governance

Race Relations Among Politicians

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2016

Do politicians show racial bias in helping citizens?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians

Texts Between Constituents and Politicians

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Do text messages improve access between constiuents and their politicians?

Politicians
Communications

Information Campaign Reduces Vote-Buying

Region: Africa   Country: Sao Tome And Principe   Date: 2013

How does an information campaign against vote buying effect election results?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians

Cash Transfer Effects on Attendance

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2011

Do conditional and unconditional transfers affect school performance?

Education
Reproduction

Impact of Marketing and Accounting Training on Business Performance

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2016

How does business training affect business success?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Peer Support and AIDS Treatment

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2016

Does support from trained peers (also on antiretroviral therapy) improve AIDS treatment commitment?

Health
Reproduction

Spreading Information about Farming Technologies

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2016

How does gender and incentives affect how farmers adopt new farming technology?

Agriculture
Food Security

School Grants and Education Outcomes

Region: Africa   Country: Senegal   Date: 2016

Do grants to schools improve student learning?

Education

Business Formalization

Region: Africa   Country: Benin   Date: 2015

How can governments get businesses to register?

Entrepreneurship
Business

Subsidies for Recent-Graduate Youth Internships

Region: Asia   Country: Yemen   Date: 2015

Do youth internships improve their long-term employment prospects?

Education
Employment / Labor

Putting Borders on Land

Region: Africa   Country: Benin   Date: 2015

Do land formalization policies help improve sustainable farming practices?

Public Sector Management
Agriculture
Food Security

Private Sector Internships for Youth

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

How do internships improve worker outcomes?

Education
Business
Employment / Labor

Effects of Education on Teen Smoking and Drinking

Region: Central America   Country: Dominican Republic   Date: 2012

How does information on the benefits of education improve health?

Education
Health

Wages Impact Quality of Applicants

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2012

Does offering higher wages for a government job attract more charitable applicants?

Public Sector Management
Governance
Employment / Labor

PTA Holding Teachers Accountable

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2012

Does hiring extra teachers and training the PTA on accountability improve schools?

Education
Governance

Effects of Alternative Dispute Resolution Campaigns

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2014

What is the effect of alternative dispute resolution educational campaigns on extrajudicial violence?

Conflict / War / Violence
Education
Public Sector Management

Limits on Preventative Healthcare Purchases

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2012

Do subsidies, information, liquidity or household-head gender have the greatest impact on preventative healthcare purchases?

Health

Free Bednets Encourage Use

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2011

Do payment plans increase access to bed nets?

Finance
Health

Self-Help Groups Encourage Savings

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Cambodia   Date: 2015

Does participation in self-help groups improve financial and civic engagement outcomes?

Finance

Democracy in Fragile States

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2015

Do civic education trainings and security reporting committees lead to better democratic outcomes?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians
Governance

Firm Formalization

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2015

How do "stick" interventions work at increasing business firm formalization?

Entrepreneurship
Business

Performance Pay for Teachers

Region: Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2015

How do different incentivized methods for teachers impact academic outcomes for students?

Education

Behavioral Solutions for Water Conservation

Region: Central America   Country: Costa Rica   Date: 2015

How do different behavioral interventions impact household water use?

Natural Resources
Environment
Water

Private vs. Public Malaria Control Policies

Region: Africa   Country: Eritrea   Date: 2015

How does the public provision of indoor residual spraying impact the use of bednets to prevent malaria?

Health

Delivering School Information to Parents

Region: South Asia   Country: Indonesia   Date: 2015

What is the best way to distribute information to parents of school children?

Education

Lottery Incentives for HIV Prevention

Region: Africa   Country: Lesotho   Date: 2015

How does offering lottery prizes impact risky sexual behavior and reproductive health?

Health
Reproduction

Handwashing and Sanitation Promotions

Region: Africa   Country: Tanzania   Date: 2015

Do sanitation and handwashing media, training, and community involvement promotions improve local sanitation outcomes?

Health
Early Childhood
Sanitation

Business and Tax Registration

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2015

Does offering firms assistance in costless business registration improve the business practices of those firms?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business

Conditional Transfers for Safer Sex

Region: Africa   Country: Tanzania   Date: 2014

Does offering conditional cash transfers impact the probability of developing sexually transmitted diseases?

Health
Reproduction

Direct Training vs. Training and Visit

Region: Africa   Country: Mozambique   Date: 2014

Are direct, centralized trainings more effective than the class training and visit models at helping farmers become more environmentally sustainable?

Agriculture

Health Care Recipient Involvement

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Does patient involvement in health care plus access to score cards lead to improved service provision and health outcomes?

Public Sector Management
Health

Business Trainings with Loan Lotteries

Region: Asia   Country: Pakistan   Date: 2014

Do business trainings and access to loan lotteries improve business outcomes and household financial activities?

Entrepreneurship

Home-Based HIV Testing and Counseling

Region: Africa   Country: Malawi   Date: 2014

Does offering home-based HIV testing and counseling lead to better sexual health and behaviors?

Health
Reproduction

Women Policy Makers

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2004

Do women leaders better reflect women's preferences?

Politicians
Infrastructure
Gender

Informal Health Savings Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2012

Are savings plans effective in helping people purchase products that improve their health?

Finance
Health

Interest Rates Encourage Savings

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2016

Are individuals who have interest rates on their bank accounts more economically successful compared to people who have no interest rates on their bank accounts?

Finance

Peer Accountability in Microlending

Region: Africa   Country: South Africa   Date: 2013

What are effective ways to involve peers in raising loan approval and repayment for microcredit loans?

Finance
Business

Savings Accounts and Financial Relationships

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2015

What effect does having a savings account have on informal financial relationships?

Finance

Bug-Net Distribution

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2010

Is free distribution or cost-sharing more effective?

Health

Deworming through School Programs

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2007

Do school deworming programs increase deworming drug take-up?

Health
Sanitation

Short-Term Reading Programs in Schools

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2013

Does a short-term reading program increase student's ability to read?

Education

Social Cooperation in Community Development

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2015

Does collective action capacity increase when community members are asked to donate to community projects?

Public Sector Management
Infrastructure

Social Utility Impacts Decisions

Region: South America   Country: Brazil   Date: 2012

How much does social learning and social utility effect purchasing habits?

Finance

Reducing Domestic Violence through Gender Norm Dialogue

Region: Africa   Country: Côte d’Ivoire   Date: 2013

Does holding a gender dialog group empower women in relationships?

Conflict / War / Violence
Finance
Communications

Clientelism and Voting Behavior

Region: Africa   Country: Benin   Date: 2013

Do town hall meetings reduce the impact clientelism has on voting behavior?

Corruption
Politics
Politicians
Governance

Loan Group Meeting Frequency and Social Capital

Region: South Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Does increasing meeting frequency of loan groups increase social bonds in the community?

Finance

Training and Resources for High-Risk Men

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2015

What impact can training and aid have on individuals who are at risk of conflict and illicit activity?

Employment / Labor

Computer Tutoring for Learning English

Region: Asia   Country: China   Date: 2016

Can computer-assisted instruction help students learn English?

Education
Communications

Impact of Financial Education for Youth

Region: Africa   Country: Ghana   Date: 2015

What are the effects of financial programs for children?

Education
Finance

Youth Work Programs

Region: Africa   Country: Sierra Leone   Date: 2016

How do public works programs impact the lives of youth and their households who participate?

Education
Finance
Entrepreneurship
Employment / Labor

Subsidies for Antimalarial Treatment

Region: Africa   Country: Kenya   Date: 2014

Do retail-sector antimalarial subsidies increase the number of malaria patients receiving malaria treatment?

Health

Loans, Grants, and Training Effect on Businesses

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2015

Do grants, loans, and/or training improve business for small business owners?

Finance
Entrepreneurship
Business
Employment / Labor

Access to Rural Microcredit

Region: Africa   Country: Morocco   Date: 2014

How does having access to formal microcredit loans impact areas with no previous access to microfinance institutions (MFIs)?

Finance

Bargaining Among Couples for Contraceptives

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2014

What is the best way to encourage family planning?

Health
Reproduction
Gender

Elite Capture in Decentralization Efforts

Region: Australia / Oceana   Country: Solomon Islands   Date: 2014

How do voucher programs compare with block grants at increasing non-elite participation in communities?

Public Sector Management
Governance
Communications

Commitments to Save for Education

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

What is the best way to encourage families to save money for children's education?

Education
Finance

Bundling Health Insurance with Credit

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2014

Is bundling health insurance with credit an effective way to increase formal insurance adoption?

Finance
Health
Insurance

Information improves Credit Market Efficacy

Region: Central America   Country: Guatemala   Date: 2010

How does a lender's use of a credit bureau affect loan sizes and loan payments?

Finance

Effective School Management

Region: Africa   Country: Gambia   Date: 2015

How do management training and resources impact academic outcomes?

Education
Public Sector Management

Matching Grants for Infrastructure

Region: North America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2014

Do local government matching grants improve infrastructure in urban poor areas?

Infrastructure

Interest Rate Sensitivity

Region: Central America   Country: Mexico   Date: 2013

How do clients respond to low and high interest rates for microcredit loans?

Finance

Financial Education and Savings Accounts

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

How can we help youth in developing countries save more money?

Education
Finance

Asymmetrical Information in Insurance

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2014

How can we improve the welfare of agricultural households?

Agriculture
Insurance

Community Participation in Arsenic Mitigation

Region: South Asia   Country: Bangladesh   Date: 2012

How does community involvement affect arsenic water exposure?

Health
Water

Cash and Therapy for High-Risk Young Men

Region: Africa   Country: Liberia   Date: 2016

Can therapy and cash grants be effective means of aiding high-risk young men?

Public Sector Management
Mental Health

Management Matters for Productivity

Region: Asia   Country: India   Date: 2012

Do consultants have an impact on improving plant operations?

Business
Employment / Labor
Industry / Trade

Water Connection on Credit

Region: Africa   Country: Morocco   Date: 2012

Are people willing to pay full price for a water connection if they buy it on credit?

Health
Infrastructure
Mental Health
Water

Individual Liabilty Impacts on Microcredit Loans 

Region: Southeast Asia   Country: Philippines   Date: 2013

How should microfinance programs be designed in order to yield the best results?

Finance
Entrepreneurship

Improving Math Instruction for Preschoolers

Region: South America   Country: Peru   Date: 2015

How does using the individualized scaffolding teaching approach impact children's mathematical literacy?

Education
Early Childhood

Tax Compliance Reminders

Region: Central America   Country: Guatemala   Date: 2016

Do reminders help people pay taxes?

Public Sector Management
Corruption

Peer Effects on Stove Purchases

Region: Africa   Country: Uganda   Date: 2014

Do peers influence the opinions and behavior of their friends and neighbors when purchasing cook stoves?

Health

Career Incentives in Public Service Delivery

Region: Africa   Country: Zambia   Date: 2015

Do career incentives attract more qualified government health workers than social incentives?

Public Sector Management
Health
Employment / Labor

Elected Councils vs Customary Leaders

Region: Middle East   Country: Afghanistan   Date: 2013

Do locally elected councils improve aid distribution in villages?

Public Sector Management
Politics