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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...

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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence From The Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation

Gertler, Paul - 2015

mechanisms, including: providing information on the return to better behavior, nudging better behavior that one already knows is … behavior. We find that health promotion generally worked through both convincing households to invest in in-home sanitation … combine intensive health promotional nudges with subsidies for sanitation construction may be needed to reduce open defecation …

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Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance : Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2013

In this article, we show that a small innovation in inspection technology can make substantial differences in inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the portable digital assistant (PDA), which reminds inspectors...

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Menstruation and Education in Nepal

Oster, Emily - 2009

This paper presents the results from a randomized evaluation that distributed menstrual cups (menstrual sanitary products) to adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Girls in the study were randomly allocated a menstrual cup for use during their monthly period and were followed for fifteen months to...

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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Guiteras, Raymond; Levinsohn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Each person's sanitation …

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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants

Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...

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Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities

Beach, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, and bureaucratic innovations. This article examines how the interaction of those forces influenced water and...

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Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Haushofer, Johannes - 2019

; one builds participants' ability to make concrete plans. Both interventions include information on health benefits of … knowledge about chlorination (compared to a group who receive only information), nor affect lab measures of time preferences or …

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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What Information Drives Asset Prices?

Ghosh, Anisha - 2017

consumption, proxies well for investors' relevant information set …

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