Texts don't nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India [0.03%]
文本无提示作用：一项阻止印度新冠疫情传播的适应性试验
Girija Bahety,Sebastian Bauhoff,Dev Patel et al.
Girija Bahety et al.
We conduct an adaptive randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a SMS-based information campaign on the adoption of social distancing and handwashing in rural Bihar, India, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. We test 10 arms...
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin [0.03%]
契约式订单农业与农村转型：贝宁实地试验的证据
Aminou Arouna,Jeffrey D Michler,Jourdain C Lokossou
Aminou Arouna
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present resu...
Stelios Michalopoulos,Alireza Naghavi,Giovanni Prarolo
Stelios Michalopoulos
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from tr...
Income Timing and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment [0.03%]
基于随机实地实验的收入时序与流动性约束证据研究
Lasse Brune,Jason T Kerwin
Lasse Brune
People in developing countries sometimes desire deferred income streams, which replace more-frequent income flows with a single, later lump sum. We study the effects of short-term wage deferral using a randomized experiment with participant...
Sveta Milusheva
Sveta Milusheva
While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risk...
Shanthi Manian
Shanthi Manian
Risky health behaviors contribute to a large share of disease in developing countries, yet few papers have studied the effect of conflict on these behaviors. The canonical health capital model predicts that conflict should increase risky he...
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height [0.03%]
开放排泄暴露可以解释印度儿童身高之谜
Dean Spears
Dean Spears
Physical height is an important measure of human capital. However, differences in average height across developing countries are poorly explained by economic differences. Children in India are shorter than poorer children in Africa, a widel...
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India [0.03%]
公共服务中的绩效奖金： winner-take-all奖励与按比例支付在减少印度儿童营养不良中的作用
Prakarsh Singh,William A Masters
Prakarsh Singh
We conduct a randomized trial to compare incentives for improved child outcomes among salaried caregivers in Chandigarh, India. A contest whose prize is divided among workers in proportion to measured gains yielded more improvement than a w...
Early-life Deprivation and Health Outcomes in Adulthood: Evidence from Childhood Hunger Episodes of Middle-aged and Elderly Chinese [0.03%]
早期生命阶段的剥夺与成人期健康结果：来自中老年中国人童年饥饿经历的证据
Hanxiao Cui,James P Smith,Yaohui Zhao
Hanxiao Cui
This paper examines long-term health consequences of early-life food deprivation across late-life health indicators. Our analysis relies on retrospective data of hunger drawn from CHARLS - a nationally representative survey of residents age...
Healthcare at the Beginning of Life and Child Survival: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment in Nigeria [0.03%]
生命早期的医疗保健与儿童生存率：来自尼日利亚现金转移实验的证据
Edward N Okeke,Isa S Abubakar
Edward N Okeke
Households in poor countries are encouraged (and sometimes coerced) to increase investments in formal health care services during pregnancy and childbirth. Is this good policy? The answer to a large extent depends on its effects on child we...