Population policies and fertility convergence While urbanisation and socioeconomic factors played a role, the global decline in fertility is largely due to successful population control programmes Health Tiloka de Silva Silvana Tenreyro Published 06.02.18
The winners and losers from partial health insurance Health insurance for families in Nicaragua had a positive impact on parents and their insured younger children, but not on uninsured older children Health Rebecca Thornton Anne Fitzpatrick Published 04.01.18
Better quality healthcare through consistent supervision Evidence from rural healthcare centres in Nigeria suggests that managerial supervision improves health outcomes, but that it must be ongoing Health Felipe Alexander Dunsch David Evans Ezinne Eze-Ajoku Mario Macis Published 17.11.17
Incentivising safer sexual behaviour: Evidence from a lottery experiment on HIV prevention Lottery incentives targeting risk lovers led to a 20% reduction in HIV incidence Health Martina Björkman-Nyqvist Lucia Corno Damien de Walque Jakob Svensson Published 30.10.17
How female foeticide has influenced fertility and parental investments in girls Ultrasound technology has increased sex selection in India, but has also narrowed gender gaps in fertility and under-five mortality Health S Anukriti Sonia Bhalotra Hiu Tam Published 11.09.17
Delivering health subsidies in developing countries Contrary to existing service delivery literature, an audit finds that health workers effectively implement health subsidies in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda Health Pascaline Dupas Published 23.06.17
Implementation ups and downs: Monitoring attendance to improve public services for the poor in India An attendance-monitoring intervention in schools reduced absenteeism, but the impact on health care workers was limited Health Rema Hanna Vestal McIntyre Published 14.07.17
Contaminated water and mental health: Evidence from Bangladesh Drinking contaminated drinking can lead to symptoms of arsenicosis, with negative impacts on mental health, household productivity, and wellbeing Health Shyamal Chowdhury Annabelle Krause Klaus F. Zimmermann Published 28.04.16
Do health subsidies help? In this video, Pascaline Dupas discusses how a full subsidy of health products increases the number of people benefitting from health products Health Pascaline Dupas Published 18.07.16
