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Mitigating the Economic and Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19 in India

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected health systems and economies across the world. Low-income communities have experienced particularly detrimental impacts, as a lack of financial stability further exacerbated augment the crisis. In partnership with the mental health care center SCARF, researchers...

Health Care Hotspotting in the United States

Annetta Zhou
Sarah Taubman

Rapidly rising health care costs in the United States have generated interest in identifying effective ways to improve the quality of care delivery and reduce waste within the health care system. In this ongoing study, researchers are evaluating the impact of a care management program that provides...

The Oregon Experiment: Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes

Jae Song
Sarah Taubman
Heidi L. Allen
Mira Bernstein
Bill Wright
Jonathan Gruber
Joseph P. Newhouse
Eric Schneider
Alan Zaslavsky

Cash and Compliance with Social Distancing in Ghana

The researchers aim to understand the role that digital cash transfers can play as a policy tool both to increase household resilience during the pandemic and to stem the spread of the disease by increasing adherence to social distancing in Ghana.

Understanding Institutional Persistence: Exposure to Community-Driven Development and the Value of Autonomy and Democracy

Serena Cocciolo
In Bangladesh, researchers evaluated how temporary exposure to a community driven development program altered citizens’ preferences for inclusive, participatory approaches to decision-making. In this context, exposure to participatory decision-making increased the value that communities assigned to...

Targeting the Ultra Poor

Nathanael Goldberg
Jeremy Shapiro
Bram Thuysbaert
Garima Sharma
In India, researchers partnered with Bandhan Konnagar to evaluate the impact of a multi-faceted livelihoods program known as the Graduation approach, which aims to encourage occupational change among people living in extreme poverty. The Graduation approach had large and positive effects on economic...

A 20-year Follow Up to an Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Jamaica

James Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Arianna Zanolini
Christel Vermeerch
Susan Walker
Susan Chang-Lopez
Sally Grantham-McGregor