Health & Education
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Does affirmative action incentivise schooling?
Caste-based reservations in government jobs and colleges in India resulted in potential future beneficiaries staying in school longer
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The role of drug packaging in malaria medication adherence in Uganda
Short messages encouraging drug adherence can increase treatment completion. This approach is low cost and scalable.
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Does bride price hurt women?
Contrary to common belief, the practice of bride price in DRC does not negatively affect women
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Reducing child mortality in the last mile: Experimental evidence on community health promoters in Uganda
An innovative community health programme providing financial incentives to health workers led to a 27% reduction in child mortality in rural Uganda
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Remedying early life weather shocks with Mexico’s PROGRESA
Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme improved the life of disadvantaged children even when not explicitly targeted
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Scaling an early childhood development and nutrition programme in Colombia
Scaling up early childhood intervention programmes even when resources are constrained can mitigate child poverty
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Evidence to practice: Education reforms
USAID is using evidence to improve the way we teach and learn
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What happens when you teach teenage girls negotiation skills?
Training girls in Zambia to negotiate saw them use strategies to secure household resources to stay in school longer, even in the face of poverty
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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