Showing 1 - 10 of 509
procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814457
, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India. Twenty-five million individuals were sent an SMS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481352
impatience, using a randomized evaluation of an incentive program for exercise among diabetics in India. Consistent with our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481663
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462632
increasing preventive doctor visits by hypertensive patients in rural India. We document varying levels of takeup of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453984
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457053
-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457670
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459350
How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456973
We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190990