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Improving Non-Communicable Disease Compliance in India

Daniel Bennett
In India, researchers will evaluate the impact of financial incentives, information, and reminders on treatment regimen compliance among patients of a healthcare provider in the slums of Mumbai.

The Impact of Cash Incentives and Health Messaging on Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in Ghana

Adrian Barnett
Philip Clarke
Raymond Duch
Piotr Kotlarz
Alberto Mayol
Ryota Nakamura
Laurence Roope
Thomas Rouyard
Dorcas Sowah
Mara Violata
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether health messaging or cash incentives of different amounts encouraged adults to get a Covid-19 vaccine in rural Ghana. When offered cash, adults were more willing to get vaccinated, but only the smaller cash amounts spurred adults to...

Improving Job Matching Among Youth in Iraq

Researchers evaluated the whether providing objective information helps jobseekers target better-suited jobs.

Do Workers Value Non-traditional Work Arrangements in the United States?

Employees may value alternative work arrangements like flexible scheduling and working from home and dislike schedules that vary from week to week on short notice. However, there is little evidence on how much these alternative work arrangements actually matter to employees. Researchers gave US job...

Saving for Multiple Goals with Lockboxes in Malawi

Valentina Brailovskaya
Jonathan Robinson
In Malawi, researchers offered micro-entrepreneurs either single or multiple lockboxes to evaluate the impact of the boxes on savings and other business and financial outcomes. Individuals offered multiple lockboxes saved more than those offered a single lockbox, suggesting that providing lockboxes...