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The Impact of PROGRESA on Health in Mexico

Simone Peart Boyce
Paul Gertler
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are designed to incentivize parents to invest in their children's health and wellbeing, while providing cash transfers to improve their current welfare. Researchers evaluated the impact of Mexico’s national CCT program (“PROGRESA”) on a wide range of health...
A female black doctor hands blonde woman paper with medical consultation in france

Free Medical Consultations for Young Job Seekers in France

Bruno Crépon
Julie Pernaudet
Researchers partnered with five job centers to test whether health counseling targeted at youth increased insurance coverage and health care use, leading to better health and employment outcomes. Encouraging youth to meet with a social worker and with a physician increased enrollment in the public...
A health worker wearing white gloves doing a finger prick test for HIV

Incentives to Reduce Unsafe Sex in Rural Tanzania

Ramadhani Abdul
Faraji Abilahi
William Dow
Erick Gong
Zachary Isdahl
Julian Jamison
Boniphace Jullu
Suneeta Krishnan
Albert Majura
Carol A. Medlin
Edward Miguel
Jeanne Moncada
Sally Mtenga
Mathew Alexander Mwanyangala
Rose Nathan
Laura Packel
Julius Schachter
Kizito Shirima
Damien de Walque
In Tanzania, researchers examined whether making cash payments conditional on testing negative for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can improve safe sex practices among young adults. They found that offering cash incentives of US$20 significantly reduced STI rates after one year, although...
A health worker in Zambia wearing magenta scrubs and blue medical mask checks patient's blood pressure

The Impact of Offering Awards on Health Worker Learning in Zambia

Researchers in Zambia introduced different kinds of awards and information on performance rankings into a year-long training for community health workers to evaluate their impact on how much trainees learned. They found that awards focused on offering recognition and improving trainees’ status and...
Two children using faucet to collect chlorine treated water in Zambia

The Effect of Information and Subsidies on Chlorine Usage in Zambia

Nava Ashraf
Kelsey Jack
Emir Kamenica
Informational campaigns and price subsidies are common ways to increase the use of health products in developing countries, but little is known about the effect of combining these tools. In Zambia, researchers investigated whether households’ demand for chlorine at varying subsidy levels was...
Two male bureaucrats in collard shirts are filling out paperwork about performance

Motivating Bureaucrats through Performance Recognition in Nigeria

Varun Gauri
Julian Jamison
Nina Mazar
Owen Ozier
Researchers introduced a performance recognition system for employees to improve record keeping in clinics in Ekiti and Niger, Nigeria. They found that the performance recognition improved record keeping in Ekiti but not in Niger. Researchers suggested that important institutional, managerial and...
A young Chinese girl sits at desk with pen in mouth and educational workbooks in front of her

The Impact of Health Education on Behavior and Nutrition in China

Renfu Luo
Alexis Medina
Grant Miller
Scott Rozelle
Yaojiang Shi
Linxiu Zhang
Huiping Zhang
Health education campaigns are often seen as a way to promote healthy behaviors and encourage the adoption of inexpensive life-saving and life-improving technologies. Researchers evaluated three health education campaigns for parents that aimed to reduce iron-deficiency anemia among primary school...
Three girls in uniforms with backpacks walk outside

Project Generasi: Conditional Community Block Grants in Indonesia

Ben Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong
Researchers partnered with the Government of Indonesia to evaluate the impact of community block grants and the additional effect of performance incentives. They found that community block grants improved health and education in Indonesian villages, and adding performance incentives sped up...