One more worthy participant has just entered the blogosphere. Innovations for Poverty Action, a research outfit dedicated to the use of randomized controlled trials, has just launched a website as well as a blog. I plan on watching this one closely.
The work of IPA spans multiple fields, but for the private sector-inclined, make sure to check out Are Women More Credit Constrained?, which found that returns to capital were higher for male rather than female-owned microenterprises, and What’s Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment, which found that "creative content" can have a substantial impact on consumer credit demand.
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