inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the …

-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among …Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light …; one builds participants' ability to make concrete plans. Both interventions include information on health benefits of …

self-esteem or gynecological health. These results suggest that policy claims that barriers to girls' schooling and …

behavior. We find that health promotion generally worked through both convincing households to invest in in-home sanitation … sanitation construction may be needed to reduce open defecation enough to generate meaningful improvements in child health …We investigate the mechanisms underlying health promotion campaigns designed to eliminate open defecation in at …

predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent …-based restaurant hygiene prediction tournament that we helped coordinate. The Boston tournament yielded algorithms—at low cost …—that proved reasonably accurate when tested “out-of-sample” on hygiene inspections occurring after the algorithms were submitted …

In 2011, Maricopa County adopted voluntary restaurant hygiene grade cards (A, B, C, D). Using inspections results …

interaction of those forces influenced water and sanitary infrastructure provision during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I …

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early … of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may … be a more significant determinant of adult outcomes in these countries because health insults are more frequent, the …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …