not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …

young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan. The intervention educated providers about bias towards …

HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …

I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …

HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …

promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi …, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania). Despite reputations for weak health sectors and low average levels of education, health …

line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money … adoption: this increases its value and reduces transaction costs of buying electricity credit. By contrast, in Ghana …

Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …