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Improving Guidelines for an Early Childhood Development Program in Rural Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Costas Meghir
Researchers partnered with the Colombian Family Welfare Agency to evaluate how providing enhanced curriculum guidelines and larger nutritional supplements for the Family, Women, and Infancy Program impacted child development. Compared to children receiving the traditional FAMI program, the enhanced...
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Barriers to Medicaid Utilization among Immigrants in the U.S.

Dean Yang
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Encouraging Behavioral Change to Improve Road Safety in Kenya

James Habyarimana
William Jack
In Kenya, researchers introduced a messaging campaign on matatus (local buses) to encourage individuals to speak up against reckless driving and reduce road accidents rates. Placing these stickers in the passenger area of matatus decreased insurance claims rates, average speed, and number of road...
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Beyond Bias

Manisha Shah
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Multiple Tasks and Multiple Rewards: Evidence on Performance Incentives from Health Programs in China

Grant Miller
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Incentivizing Communities and Households to Invest in Sanitation in Laos

Lisa Cameron
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Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution, and Respiratory Health in India

Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna
While researchers found a meaningful reduction in smoke inhalation in the first year after households received an improved stove, there was no effect over longer time horizons. The difference between the laboratory and field results is due to households’ revealed low valuation of the stoves...