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Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A.; Shah, Manisha - 2017

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS …), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale across rural East Java in Indonesia. CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process …

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Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development

Cameron, Lisa A.; Olivia, Susan; Shah, Manisha - 2015

field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …

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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2016

In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...

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Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2017

Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to...

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Does Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from Indonesia's Social Security Card

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2017

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data and nationally representative surveys, we evaluate the...

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Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5,000 entrepreneurs from 49 African countries. All were enrolled in an online business course, and the treatment involved random assignment to either face-to-face or virtual...

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Literacy and Information

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...

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Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees

Islam, Asad; Mozumder, Tanvir Ahmed; Rahman, Tabassum; … - 2024

Forced displacement is a major driver of mental health disorders among refugees globally. The mental well-being of adult refugees, particularly mothers, is widely recognized as a crucial determinant of their children's psychological health and development. In this study, we conducted a...

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Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices

Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; … - 2024

We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...

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Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso

Boutin, Delphine; Petifour, Laurene; Allard, Yvonne; … - 2024

Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative...

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