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Oster, Emily F. - 2010

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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Incomplete Disclosure : Evidence of Signaling and Countersignaling

Bederson, Benjamin - 2016

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

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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

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 …

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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation

Gertler, Paul J. - 2015

We investigate the mechanisms underlying health promotion campaigns designed to eliminate open defecation in at-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of mechanisms, including: providing information on...

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Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities

Beach, Brian - 2023

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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