Health

Can privatised healthcare add value? The Mexico diabetes experiment

Private care led to large savings for the public sector and improved health outcomes through more access to care, not necessarily better technology...

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Ari Bronsoler Jonathan Gruber Enrique Seira

Published

29.11.21

Fertility and polygyny in rural Burkina Faso

Women have a stronger preference for contraceptive vouchers than their spouses in monogamous households, but a weaker preference in polygynous ones...

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Ben D'Exelle Aurelia Lepine Richard Bakyono Ludovic Tapsoba

Published

15.11.21

Mass media meets motherhood: Increasing contraception uptake in Burkina Faso

A high-quality intensive family planning radio campaign increased contraception uptake by 20%...

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Rachel Glennerster Joanna Murray Victor Pouliquen

Published

10.09.21

Attracting physicians to underserved areas: Evidence from Brazil

Policies based on physicians' geographic preferences, such as quotas and university expansion, are more cost-effective than financial incentives...

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Francisco Costa Leticia Nunes Fabio Miessi Sanches

Published

11.06.21

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Rebecca Dizon-Ross Shilpa Aggarwal Ariel Zucker

Published

07.10.20