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At least ten countries across Africa, including Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Namibia, are currently undergoing secondary curriculum reforms to teach youth the skills they need to succeed after school. Yet many of these reforms are not effective due to implementation challenges, particularly the prevalence of traditional rote-memorization pedagogy. This study will examine pedagogy-targeted curriculum reform and teacher training in the delivery of Rwanda’s revised secondary school entrepreneurship curriculum, to be introduced in 2016. A subset of schools will be randomly selected to receive two years of ongoing teacher training on the curriculum. A control group will receive the curriculum only. The study will measure impact on student academic and life outcomes over a period of three years...
We study professionals’ motivations for providing information on a job's time demands to jobseekers. To do so, we conduct a survey experiment in which professionals are asked to provide information about their former employer to a hypothetical jobseeker. We randomize the characteristics (gender, desire to have children) of the jobseeker, the availability of information about jobseekers' preferences for information, and the recruitment motives of the professional. We will test how these conditions affect the professionals' time allocation among various topics.
In developing countries, where product labels and standards are particularly weak, dealers play an important role in informing customers about expected performance of durable goods and influence their purchasing decisions. Dealers can choose to promote high performing products to create more value for the customer and increase their repeat purchase probability, but can also choose to increase short term gains by spreading misinformation and promoting products with sub-optimal performance. We study the decision making of dealers through an audit study in the electric three wheeler lead acid battery market in Bangladesh. In a circular economy, as with lead acid batteries, the sale of used batteries by customers at volatile lead market dependent salvage value introduces new trade-offs betw...
This study examines the impact of modifications to the Transferencia a Primera Infancia (TPI) in urban areas. The TPI is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program available to households that are part of the JUNTOS program (Peru’s flagship CCT program) and have a pregnant woman or a child less than 12 months old. The study will examine the impact of increasing the benefit amount on household welfare, child health, and child cognitive development.
Information on operating costs can enable potential buyers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles. We test this hypothesis in a developing country setting using personalised information provision in a randomised controlled trial: we recruit respondents looking to purchase a motorcycle in Kathmandu, Nepal, and provide them information on annual operating cost-savings or five-year operating cost-savings of different models using energy labels on a unique web-based platform. We find that both information treatments were effective in improving the fuel economy of the motorcycles actually purchased by respondents, and the motorcycle that they stated they would like to purchase, with a stronger effect for the five-year operating cost savings. Furthermore, being shown the five-year operating...
This study aims to better understand how women make labor adjustments in terms of family organization and well-being. To study this, we build on a previous field experiment among female teachers with children in Switzerland where we randomly informed women about the future long-term financial consequences of having a reduced workload. The goal of this survey wave is to collect qualitative data to understand changes in family logistics and satisfaction, approximately 18 months after the original intervention. More information about the original study design can be found here: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/10399.
The role of social information in shaping decisions and behaviors is well-documented across many domains. This influence extends to workplace environments, where studies have extensively documented how relative performance feedback affects workers' effort and performance. Notwithstanding, an important question that remains largely underexplored is whether workers actually value such social information and the purposes for which it is used. This study explores the broader welfare implications of social information in workplace settings, focusing particularly on whether workers value this information for its instrumental value, how it affects morale by fostering competition, or how it gives rise to fairness concerns.
An increasing body of literature identifies consumption habits, particularly of affluent population segments, as an important barrier and key lever of climate change mitigation efforts (Creutzig et al., 2016; IPCC, 2022; Mundaca et al., 2019; Poore & Nemecek, 2018). One area of such currently unsustainable consumption habits are food consumption patterns threatening global food security due to high diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use, biodiversity loss, as well as negative health consequences (Clark et al., 2020; Crippa et al., 2021; IPCC, 2022; Scarborough et al., 2023; Willett et al., 2019). Thus, there is a growing consensus in the literature that a demand-side shift toward more plant-based diets is a key lever to sustainably change the food system and dietary p...
We study the short- and long-term impact of depression treatment on individual poverty. We also develop and test a new methodology to estimate budget shares of assignable goods.
In a Medicaid managed health care system, patients age off their parent’s electronic health record at 18 years old but are still eligible for annual “Well Child” visits until age 21. In many cases, these "adult" patients are “lost” to the health care system because the system is no longer legally allowed to coordinate care with the patient’s parents. In this work, we test approaches to engaging these patients with the health care system and encouraging them to complete an annual Well Child visit. In particular, we test whether financial incentives can increase engagement and whether a completion-based incentive that rewards patients for completing a Well Child visit, is as effective at increasing Well-Child visit completion rates as a task-based incentive that reward patients for each s...