Recent work by Laura Schechter
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Persuading voters in India to punish vote-buying candidates
A radio campaign highlighting the costs of vote buying drew close to 3 million votes away from vote-buying parties
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The impact of privatising the management of a sanitation utility: Evidence from Senegal
Privatising sludge treatment centres improves sanitation outcomes and reduces desludging prices without concentrating market power
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Using mobile money to improve access to sanitation services in Dakar
Subsidies see a greater take up of mechanised latrine desludging than mental accounting nudges for better public health
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Decentralisation under changing state capacity: Experimental evidence from Paraguay
Decentralising the monitoring of public sector workers is cost-effective, but as central state capacity increases this advantage disappears