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...
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...