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In Rwanda, 72 percent of employed youth work for family firms or are self-employed. These outcomes suggest that schools may be failing to develop the skills required to enter formal sector jobs or grow small firms. In response, Rwanda reformed its required upper secondary entrepreneurship course by introducing interactive pedagogy and a…

We propose to test the effects of an increase of monetary incentives paid to frontline service providers and the effect of making their pay transparent on the take-up of a new technology. The context is one of a large bank that hires local branchless banking agents to introduce a new savings account…

This study adapts BRAC’s ultra-poverty program to focus on child nutrition, household food security and resilience, and evaluates its impact in two regions of Burkina Faso. In our study, we test the hypothesis that a targeted cash transfer, asset transfer, and nutrition-focused project can transform the early childhood environment to reduce poverty…

Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but we have little evidence on the impact of such grants on adolescents living in beneficiary households. A successful productive asset grant could reduce child labor via a wealth effect if child labor markets…

We will run a randomized experiment to test whether improving management practices can achieve these goals, in the context of a government-sponsored management technical assistance program in one middle-income country.