Daniel Bennett,Chun-Fang Chiang,Anup Malani
Daniel Bennett
SARS struck Taiwan in 2003, causing a national crisis. Many people feared that SARS would spread through the health care system, and outpatient visits fell by more than 30% in the course of a few weeks. We examine how both public informatio...
Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia [0.03%]
有条件现金转移能否提高长期生活水平？来自赞比亚的证据
Sudhanshu Handa,Luisa Natali,David Seidenfeld et al.
Sudhanshu Handa et al.
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs impleme...
Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia [0.03%]
无条件现金转移能否提高长期生活水平？来自赞比亚的证据
Sudhanshu Handa,Luisa Natali,David Seidenfeld et al.
Sudhanshu Handa et al.
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs impleme...
Lisa Cameron,Susan Olivia,Manisha Shah
Lisa Cameron
We investigate the impacts of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation, which was implemented at scale across rural areas of Indonesia with a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness. The progra...
The Persistent Effects of Youth Savings Reminders: Experimental Evidence from Text-Message Campaigns in Colombia [0.03%]
青年储蓄习惯的持续影响：哥伦比亚短信推广项目的实地实验证据
Catherine Rodríguez,Juan E Saavedra
Catherine Rodríguez
We report on a nationwide field experiment with a commercial bank in Colombia in which low-income youth (12 years old on average) who open new accounts are randomly assigned immediately after opening the account to control or to receive one...
Ruth Vargas Hill,Neha Kumar,Nicholas Magnan et al.
Ruth Vargas Hill et al.
This study assesses both the demand for and effectiveness of an index insurance product designed to help smallholder farmers in Bangladesh manage crop production risk during the monsoon season. Villages were randomized into either an insura...
Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation [0.03%]
补贴与心理账户助推：利用移动支付系统改善卫生设施
Molly Lipscomb,Laura Schechter
Molly Lipscomb
The proliferation of mobile money across developing countries has led to an increase in availability of mobile payment systems. This decreases the organizational complexity of allowing more flexible payment terms for customers. We test whet...
Johannes Norling
Johannes Norling
This paper introduces a model-based approach for measuring heterogeneity in sex preferences using birth history records. The approach identifies the combinations of preferences over the sex and number of children that best explain observed ...
Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda [0.03%]
改良仓储技术能促进现代投入使用和粮食安全吗？基于乌干达的一项田野实验证据
Oluwatoba J Omotilewa,Jacob Ricker-Gilbert,John Herbert Ainembabazi et al.
Oluwatoba J Omotilewa et al.
We use panel data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) administered among 1200 smallholders in Uganda to evaluate input use and food security impacts of an improved maize storage technology. After two seasons, households who received th...
The impact of packaging and messaging on adherence to malaria treatment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda [0.03%]
一项在乌干达进行的随机对照试验表明包装和信息对疟疾治疗依从性的影响证据
Jessica Cohen,Indrani Saran
Jessica Cohen
Despite substantial public and private costs of non-adherence to infectious disease treatments, patients often do not finish their medication. We explore adherence to medication for malaria, a major cause of morbidity and health system cost...