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Socioeconomic gaps in child development : evidence from a national health and nutrition survey in Bolivia
Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian; Vidal Fuertes, Cecilia - 2018
sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from … (SD) in height for age and weight for age z-scores respectively, between children in the top and bottom quintile of the … expenditure distribution. Children in the top quintile are less likely to have iron deficiency (11 pp) and anemia (17 pp), whereas …
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Multilevel determinants of childhood undernutrition among low-income urban and rural households in the Philippines
Siy Van, Vanessa T.; Sales, Zarah G.; Gordoncillo, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013534574
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Increasing the take-up of public health services : an experiment on nudges and digital tools in Uruguay
Cuesta, Ana; Delgado, Lucia; Gallegos, Sebastián; … - 2021
In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women to make medical appointments with a digital...
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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments : evidence from a natural field experiment
Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020
In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...
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Predictive power in behavioral welfare economics
Bouacida, Elias; Martin, Daniel - 2017
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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021
Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...
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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia
Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023
This study investigates the effectiveness of dynamic norm nudges in promoting second-dose HPV vaccinations among trendsetters-parents who initiated the firstdose HPV vaccine for their daughters between 2017-2020. Utilizing administrative data from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field...
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...
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Increasing the use of telemedicine : a field experiment
González, María Patricia; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2023
Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be accurately evaluated and compared to its substitute (in this case, in-person visits) only after the product has been adopted and experienced. As such, an intervention that increases...
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Early nutrition and cognition in Peru : a within-sibling investigation
Outes‐Leon, Ingo; Porter, Catherine; Sánchez, Alan - 2011
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