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This week we featured research on women's employment, microfinance, mental health and more!

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What do we know about the methods, funders and focus of development economics research?

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A long-run study tracking students nine years after a school financial education programme finds lasting reductions in expensive credit use, improved loan repayment, and a shift towards entrepreneurship. This suggests that well-designed curricula can reshape both financial and occupational decisions.

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Exporting factories in India employ more women and pay smaller gender wage gaps than non-exporters, but these gains erode as capital intensity rises – because women lack access to the technical skills that technology-intensive production demands.

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A five-season field experiment with smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa shows that new agricultural technologies are hard to adopt not because farmers lack information, but because such technologies require multiple interdependent decisions that take years of costly trial and error to get right.

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