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Larger cumulative transfers to the household significantly improved outcomes in many aspects of child physical, cognitive, and language development, both in the short and long term.

Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Early Childhood Development in Mexico

Lia C.H. Fernald
Paul Gertler
Lynnette Neufeld
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Scaling Up an Entrepreneurial Model of Community Health Delivery in Uganda

Andrea Guariso
Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Jakob Svensson
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The Effect of Information and Subsidies on Chlorine Usage in Zambia

Nava Ashraf
Kelsey Jack
Emir Kamenica

Returns to Physician Human Capital in the United States: Evidence From Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Joseph Doyle
Steven Ewer
Todd Wagner

Adoption of Insecticide Treated Bednets among Poor Households in Orissa, India

Brian Blackburn
Aprajit Mahajan
Alessandro Tarozzi
Joanne Yoong
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Increasing Tuberculosis Detection through Incentivized Peer Referrals in India

Chintagunta
Jessica Goldberg
Mario Macis
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of peer referrals by current patients on the screening and identification of tuberculosis cases in India. Peer referrals and outreach by current patients to identified peers were more effective than health-worker led contact-tracing...

Enrolling Informal Sector Workers in National Health Insurance in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Amy Finkelstein
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Arianna Ornaghi
Sudarno Sumarto
A key challenge to achieving universal health coverage is that non-poor informal workers are difficult to enroll and retain in government health insurance programs. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of various programs, including subsidies, registration assistance and...
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Providing Eyeglasses to Handicraft Weavers for Increased Productivity in Rwanda

Paul Glewwe
Julie Schaffner