Information provision and street food safety: A field study in urban India While unsafe street food affects the health of millions of people, information alone may not be enough to change vendors’ food safety practices Health Gianmarco Daniele Sulagna Mookerjee Denni Tommasi Published 24.05.21
The power of edutainment: Evidence from Brazil and Nigeria Telenovelas in Brazil helped reduce fertility rates, while an MTV drama increased knowledge about HIV in Nigeria and encouraged safer sexual practices Health Eliana La Ferrara Published 28.04.21
Designing more effective interventions to prevent childhood stunting: Evidence from Nigeria Bundling interventions that offer parents health information along with cash transfers might yield more sustainable changes in early-life health outcomes for children Health Pedro Carneiro Lucy Kraftman Giacomo Mason Lucie Moore Imran Rasul Molly Scott Published 27.01.21
The impact of criminalising sex work in Indonesia Criminalising sex work in Indonesia led to large increases in sexually transmitted infections among sex workers and likely across the whole population Health Lisa Cameron Jennifer Seager Manisha Shah Published 09.11.20
Incentivising behavioural change: The role of time preferences Bundling payment incentives over time is more effective in increasing effort among the impatient, relative to increasing payment frequency Health Rebecca Dizon-Ross Shilpa Aggarwal Ariel Zucker Published 07.10.20
How soccer and goals make better relationships Lessons on gender parity and staying healthy reduced intimate partner violence and led goal-minded girls to choose age-appropriate and ‘better’ boys Health Manisha Shah Jennifer Seager Published 16.09.20
The economics of child marriage Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage Health Rachel Glennerster Nina Buchmann Erica Field Published 09.09.20
Negotiating a better future: Experimental evidence from Zambia Can we increase girls’ educational outcomes through endowing them with negotiation skills? Health Kathleen L. McGinn Nava Ashraf Natalie Bau Corinne Low Published 02.09.20
How technology can drive student performance How does the use of education technology actually impact students in poorer regions of the developing world? Health Karthik Muralidharan Abhijeet Singh Alejandro J. Ganimian Published 19.08.20
