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Incentivizing Physical Activity to Improve Mental Health During Covid-19 Disruptions in the United States
Researchers conducted a randomized intervention to measure the impact of financial incentives for reaching daily step goals on physical activity and depression risk during the Covid-19 pandemic, to better understand the association between physical activity and mental health. While program participants significantly increased their daily steps relative to the comparison group, this change in physical activity did not lead to improvement in their mental well-being.
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Marcos Agurto
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Oswaldo Molina
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Santosh Kumar Sahoo
Santosh Kumar Sahoo serves as a Survey Coordinator at JPAL South Asia within IFMR and is stationed in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. In this capacity, Santosh oversees the management of field surveys, recruits field personnel, provides training, handles project management, leads the survey team, and offers...
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Praveen P
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Simone Schaner
Simone Schaner is an Associate Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California. Her research applies insights from behavioral economics to examine savings behavior in Kenya and Ghana, and the delivery and adoption of malaria treatment in Kenya.
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Ahlam Labiad
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The Effect of Text Message Reminders on Failure to Appear in Court in the Rural United States
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of text message reminders on rates of failure to appear in court (FTA) among people who are unhoused and housed in rural Shasta County, California. The reminders reduced FTA rates for the housed population, but did not impact FTA rates for people experiencing homelessness.
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Ariel Zucker
Ariel Zucker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include health and environmental conditions in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in studying behavioral biases in personal decision-making.
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Maria Fernanda Rosales Rueda
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Sri Vaishnavi Varma Gottumukkala
Sri Vaishnavi Varma is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she is currently working in the Energy Environment and Climate Change sector on the Direct Benefit Transfers for Electricity project (DBTE-AP) in Andhra Pradesh.
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Veda Madhusudan
Veda Madhusudan is a Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL Global, where she supports the team in funding innovative research and synthesizing and disseminating evidence-based policy lessons.
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Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT with Dual Appointment in Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Partnership for AI Evidence. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior...