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Learning from Self and Learning from Others : Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (Английский)

Can decentralizing demonstration accelerate learning about new technologies? This paper randomizes access to a fixed demonstration kit for new flood-saline-resilient seeds across villages in Bangladesh...

Demand for 'Safe Spaces': Avoiding Harassment and Stigma (Английский)

We crowdsource information on approximately 22,000 train rides undertaken by commuters on Rio de Janeiro’s SuperVia to study sexual harassment in the public space and its effects on demand for a women-reserved...

A Few Good Masks : Evidence from Mask Manufacturing in Rwanda during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Английский)

Did increases in mask supply slow the spread of COVID-19? Rwanda licensed and incentivized textile manufacturers to produce high-quality masks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper exploits...

Intervention Size and Persistence (Английский)

Do larger interventions improve longer run outcomes more cost effectively? And should poverty traps motivate increasing intervention size? This paper considers two approaches to increasing intervention...

Demand for “Safe Space” : Avoiding Harassment and Complying with Norms (Английский)

Global Agriculture and Food Security Program : Impact Evaluation Note (Английский)

The global agriculture and food security program (GAFSP) is designed to make smart investments in sustainable and resilient food and agriculture systems to improve the lives of poor farmers in countries...

Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda (Английский)

This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key...

Science for Impact : Better Evidence for Better Decisions – The Dime Experience (Английский)

The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Group generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity...

The speed of justice (Французский)

Can procedural reforms improve judicial efficiency? And do improvements in judicial efficiency benefit firms? The authors study a reform that gave judges in Senegal the powers to desk reject cases and...

Science for impact : better evidence for better decisions (Английский)

Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a multi-donor trust fund managed by Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in the World Bank Research Group. It is designed to generate high-qualityand operationally...

The speed of justice (Английский)

Can procedural reforms improve judicial efficiency? And do improvements in judicial efficiency benefit firms? The authors study a reform that gave judges in Senegal the powers to desk reject cases and...

Water when it counts : reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in Central Mozambique (Английский)

Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient...

Seeing is believing? : evidence from an extension network experiment (Английский)

Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension agents to contact farmers...

Feedback matters : evidence from agricultural services (Английский)

Feedback tools have become ubiquitous in the service industry and social development programs alike. This study designed a field experiment to test whether eliciting feedback can empower users and increase...

Do they do as they say? stated versus revealed preferences and take up in an incentives for conservation program (Английский)

Use of conditional cash transfers has become widespread in development policy given their success in boosting health and education outcomes. Recently, conditional cash transfers are being used to promote...

Are gender differences in performance innate or socially mediated ? (Английский)

To explain persistent gender gaps in market outcomes, a lab experimental literature explores whether women and men have innate differences in ability (or attitudes or preferences), and a separate field-based...

Formalizing rural land rights in West Africa : early evidence from a randomized impact evaluation in Benin : Formalisation des droits fonciers dans les zones rurales d'Afrique de l'Ouest : Résultats initiaux d'une étude expérimentale au Bénin (Французский)

This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural...

Securing property rights for women and men in rural Benin (Английский)

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are less likely than men to own land. They also use less land and have lower tenure security over the land that they use. This gap is costly in terms of lost productive output...

Securing property rights for women and men in rural Benin : Mieux établir les droits fonciers des femmes et des hommes dans les zones rurales au Bénin (Французский)

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are less likely than men to own land. They also use less land and have lower tenure security over the land that they use. This gap is costly in terms of lost productive output...

Formalizing rural land rights in West Africa : early evidence from a randomized impact evaluation in Benin (Английский)

This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural...