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View article: Using social media surveys and interventions to address vaccine hesitancy in Saudi Arabia
Using social media surveys and interventions to address vaccine hesitancy in Saudi Arabia Open
Background: Countering COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been a challenge in Saudi Arabia, one of the countries affected most by the pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Aims: To identify information needs, perceived benefits, concer…
View article: Replication package for "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?"
Replication package for "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?" Open
Replication package for EJ article "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?"
View article: Poor Expectations: Experimental Evidence on Teachers' Stereotypes and Student Assessment
Poor Expectations: Experimental Evidence on Teachers' Stereotypes and Student Assessment Open
Do teachers’ stereotypes of social class
\n bias their assessment of students? This study uses a
\n lab-in-the-field experiment among primary school teachers to
\n test whether they are biased against poor students. Teachers
\n assessed a …
View article: The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter : The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru
The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter : The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru Open
This paper evaluates the academic impact
\n of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the
\n secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu
\n Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the
\n notion…
View article: Can teaching growth mindset and self-management at school shift student outcomes and teacher mindsets? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
Can teaching growth mindset and self-management at school shift student outcomes and teacher mindsets? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia Open
School programs fostering students’ mindsets and socioemotional skills have shown promise for boosting schooling and learning. However, little is known about the impacts of such interventions outside of high-income countries and how variat…
View article: Obesity and Food Away from Home: What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight?
Obesity and Food Away from Home: What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight? Open
Rising obesity rates are one of the most
\n challenging public health issues in many emerging economies.
\n The extent to which the nutritional composition of food
\n consumed away from home is behind this rise, and the links
\n with socio…
View article: Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations
Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations Open
Commonly used personality questions fail to capture the intended personality traits in surveys in low- and middle-income countries.
View article: The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria
The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria Open
This paper examines the links between
\n adverse events, depression, and decision making in Nigeria.
\n It investigates how events such as conflicts, shocks, and
\n deaths can affect short-term perceptions of welfare, as well
\n as longer …
View article: Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Open
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This pa…
View article: Cash_and_Childhood_Development_Replication.zip
Cash_and_Childhood_Development_Replication.zip Open
Replication data.
View article: You Are What (and Where) You Eat: Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures
You Are What (and Where) You Eat: Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures Open
Consumption of food away from home is rapidly growing across the developing world, and will continue to do so as GDP per person grows and food systems evolve. Surprisingly, the majority of household surveys have not kept up with its pace a…
View article: Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation Open
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through w…
View article: Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children Open
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end.This paper analyzes the…
View article: Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments Open
Sustainability of short-term interventions may depend on whether they manage to change families' attitudes towards the future and related social norms. This investigation shows that role female models in very low-income settings of Nicarag…