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 informative about hygiene dimensions that consumers directly experience …

Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Each person's sanitation … behavior can affect the health of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19 …

accepted public health goals. Of particular interest is the adoption of voluntary private market segmentation, rationing and …

-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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …We investigate the mechanisms underlying health promotion campaigns designed to eliminate open defecation in at …

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