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

Gertler, Paul - 2015

-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of … 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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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …

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Testing Models of Social Learning on Networks : Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field

Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2015

. We conduct a lab experiment in the field with 665 subjects across 19 villages in Karnataka, India, designed to …

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Getting Better or Feeling Better? How Equity Investors Respond to Investment Experience

Campbell, John Y. - 2014

Using a large representative sample of Indian retail equity investors, many of them new to the stock market, we show that both years of investment experience and feedback from investment returns have significant effects on investor behavior, favored stock styles, and performance. We identify two...

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Unhooking the Past : Early-life Exposure to Hookworm Eradication and Later-life Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study examines the long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's (RSC) hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, on old-age longevity. Utilizing Social Security Administration death records linked to the 1940 full-count census, we employ a...

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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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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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Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Haushofer, Johannes - 2019

Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among 3750 women in rural Kenya. One...

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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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