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• Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda AI翻译
  作者：Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman; Guariso, Andrea; Svensson, Jakob; Yanagizawa-Drott, David
  作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Trinity College Dublin; Stockholm University; University of Zurich
  摘要：The delivery of basic health products and services remains abysmal in many parts of the world where child mortality is high. This paper shows the results from a large-scale randomized evaluation of a novel approach to health care delivery In randomly selected villages, a sales agent was locally recruited and incentivized to conduct home visits, educate households on essential health behaviors, provide medical advice and referrals, and sell preventive and curative health products. Results after...
• Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia AI翻译
  作者：Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L.; Saavedra, Juan E.
  作者单位：Harvard University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern California
  摘要：In 2005 the city of Bogota, Colombia, introduced three conditional cash transfer programs for secondary schooling, randomly assigning socioeconomically disadvantaged students to different payment structures. We show, through administrative data, that forcing families to save one-third of the transfer increases long-term human capital accumulation by means of additional tertiary education-which is not incentivized-, casting doubt on conditionalities as a driving mechanism. Directly incentivizin...