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The challenges and opportunities in livestock farming are different for women smallholder farmers compared to the men influencing individual empowerment and consequently impacting food-security, well-being and livelihood. In several countries, women are primary producers of food and tend to control vital livestock products to produce the same. Studies have demonstrated that women are primary caregivers of cattle, thus empowering women in livestock health decisions can benefit households and communities, as their unique perspectives and skills can contribute to disease prevention and overall livestock management. This study aims to investigate the relationship between women empowerment and cattle health management using a lab in the field experiment. The experiment is scheduled to ta...
Modern social communication systems–ranging from email to social media systems–present a dizzying number of decisions for users. Privacy configurations, when not hidden by social media companies, are opaque. Individuals sometimes are also not aware of the externality that their sharing decisions can have to others. Thus, it is often hard for individuals to react or behave in ways that model the personal behaviors or are communally advantageous. Personalized recommendations, interfaces, interventions or nudges can help but implementing these requires an understanding end-user preferences. Our research seeks to tackle this challenge by modeling individual preferences through the use of economic games, both in a neutral context and in specific scenarios. Simultaneously, we will collect use...
Diabetes and diabetes-related complications have reached epidemic levels in urban India. A promising strategy for local governments to reduce the financial and physical burdens of diabetes is to encourage better disease management by patients. Disease management may be particularly poor among impatient and present-biased people, since the costs of management (e.g., exercising more) are borne today but the benefits are realized in the future. Thus, offering financial rewards for healthy behaviors may be a potent tool for improving disease management. However, it is not well understood how to optimally design incentives for impatient and present-biased agents. Two key aspects of the incentive design--the lag between incentivized behavior and payment, and whether the contract is additively...
Why does academic and labour market outcomes differ for those in pursuing post secondary education? This study will explore whether any prior social or individual beliefs can explain these differences. An intervention designed to enable learning from past failures by generating an anticipation of regret for not taking action when it was the time to do so. A retrospective exposure to past failed experiences could increase individuals' awareness on what leads to failure. As a result, individuals should update their beliefs and make behavioural changes that help them get their desired educational and labour market goals. This study is interested to look at whether there is any demand for higher order cognitive skills as a result of the treatment and whether individual emotional intelligenc...
This study examines the adoption of menstrual health technologies in high-severity settings, focusing on the influence of social barriers on this adoption. Conducted through a randomized control trial, the research assesses two intervention groups: one receiving standard menstrual health education and products, and the other additionally involving male household members in specialized educational sessions. Initially, we explore the demand for various menstrual technology features, along with the knowledge and needs surrounding menstruation among women in communities served by Oxfam in Mali, the Central African Republic, and Somaliland. This approach allows us to understand both the direct impact of menstrual health technologies and the role of social dynamics in their adoption.
Working with peers can be beneficial or harmful for many reasons. This study explores how working in pairs and pair composition affects students’ academic achievement and attitudes towards group work.
Many college students in the United States, especially first-generation college students and those from low income backgrounds, face numerous barriers that prevent them from completing their intended course of study. 10,000 Degrees is a nonprofit that seeks to address this completion crisis and promote educational equity by serving primarily low-income and first generation students of color from the San Francisco Bay Area through its College Success Program. Participants in this program receive a scholarship and have access to additional resources including group events, scholarship-related reminders, answers to their questions, and referral to on-campus support. Traditionally, participants have also had access to on-demand mentoring from a College Success Fellow. However, not all stude...
Counteracting misinformation on childhood vaccines remains a priority for public health in industrialized countries. Previous research showed that misinformation-induced vaccine hesitancy particularly concerns very highly or very lowly educated parents, and, especially in Europe, specific groups of immigrants. Misinformation framing directly targets specific sub-population of parents by exploiting different cognitive biases, and specific concerns based on cultural norms: we aim at testing the effectiveness of similar framing techniques applied to positive information on the HPV vaccine by conducting a stratified Randomized Controlled Trial in Stockholm, Sweden. We randomize emotionally and scientifically/statistically framed information addressing the specific concerns reporte...
Black entrepreneurs in the United States are notably disadvantaged relative to their White counterparts. This disadvantage primarily stems from differential access to resources (Bates, Bradford, & Seamans, 2018). Although scholars have closely attended to differentials in the acquisition of financial capital by Black entrepreneurs (e.g., Fairlie, Robb, & Robinson, 2022; Younkin & Kuppuswamy, 2018), less attention has been given to differentials in the acquisition of social capital, or durable networks of social relationships granting access to actual and potential resources (Bourdieu, 1986). However, social capital is an important resource for entrepreneurs (Gedajlovic et al., 2013), and it is a form of capital particularly sensitive to racial dynamics (Putnam, 2007). To explore the...
The Ethiopian government initiated a Community-Based Insurance scheme (CBHI) in 2011 to enhance financial protection for the informal sector. As of 2020, 8.4 million households were enrolled in the scheme. However, one of the CBHI's challenges is that households contribute an equal amount of premium (flat-rate contribution in majority of the settings across the country) regardless of their economic status and ability to pay. This adversely affected the lower-income households, sustainability, and equity of the program. To address this challenge, a new policy initiative, a sliding scale (SS-CBHI) contribution system based on households’ economic status is under consideration. This study is intended to evaluate the impact of introducing the new policy initiative using a Randomized control...