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Healthcare Assimilation of Immigrants

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Belief Systems and Health Behaviors in Guinea-Bissau

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Follow the Leader: Community-based Health Insurance in West Africa

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Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development

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Social Networks and Mental Health: The Experience of Cape-Verdean Migrants in Portugal

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Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia?

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The politics of policy reform:
Experimental evidence from Liberia

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Artisanal mining in Africa

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Cousins From Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of Half a Million Portuguese Repatriates

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Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines

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Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games

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Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

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Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India

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Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City

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Keeping Up With the Joneses: Economic Impacts of Overconfidence in Micro-Entrepreneurs

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How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe? Survey evidence and a salience experiment

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Firm Responses to Violent Conflicts

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The Impact of Financial Education of Executives on Financial Practices of Medium and Large Enterprises

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Closing the Gender Profit Gap

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Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

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Conditional Cash Transfers at Scale: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis in Morocco

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Can Technology Improve the Classroom Experience in Primary Education? An African Experiment on a Worldwide Program

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Information, Get-out-the-vote Messages, and Peer Influence: Causal Effects on Political Behavior in Mozambique

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Preventing Violent Islamic Radicalization: Experimental Evidence on Anti-social Behavior

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Natural Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities

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The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality

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Stabbed in the Back? Mandated Political Representation and Murders

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Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

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Productive Workfare? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program

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Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola

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Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence From An Experiment In Rural Africa

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Aspirations, Expectations, Identities: Behavioral Constraints of Micro-Entrepreneurs

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Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program

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Climate change, education and mobility in Africa

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Identifying communication spillovers in lab in the field experiments

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Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

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The Gold Digger and the Machine Evidence on the Distributive Effect of the Artisanal and Industrial Gold Rushes in Burkina Faso

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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Occupation-Skill Mismatch and Selection of Immigrants: Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market

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Understanding Willingness to Migrate Illegally: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment

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Thirty Years of Economic Growth in Africa

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Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks

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Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique

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Does Electoral Observation Influence Electoral Results? Experimental Evidence for Domestic and International Observers in Mozambique

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Good News and Bad News are Still News: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating

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Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using tracking information to correct bias

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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

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Migrant Intentions to Return: The Role of Migrant Social Networks

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Assessing the Role of Social Networks on Migrant Labor Market Outcomes

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Electronic Payments in Mozambique: A Baseline on their adoption in Maputo and Matola

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Exchange Rate Pressure in Angola

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Leadership Paradoxes in Angolan Organizations

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self- Insurance?

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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship

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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows:
Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Vitamin A Deficiency and Training to Farmers:
Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mozambique

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Is Information Power?
Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique

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Voting and Peer Effects:
Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

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Directed Giving:
Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

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Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique:
Evidence from a Field Experiment

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