Blog Posts
Can financial incentives protect female sex workers fromgender-based violence? Lessons learned from a randomized trial of a lottery intervention in Tanzania. with Rebecca Hemono, Marianna Balampama and William H. Dow in Nasikiliza
Incentivising school attendance: evidence from Mozambique. with Christine Valente. In VoxDev.
Taking care: The impacts and limitations of financial incentives in health. In Let's Talk Development.
Early education: the impact on children's preferences and decision making. In GlobalDev. Also in French and Spanish.
Gender differences in social preferences: Lessons from a day care experiment in Rio de Janeiro. In Let’s Talk Development.
Improving Effective Health Coverage: Are Financial Incentives the Right Remedy? London School of Economics Blog
Can cash transfers mitigate the effect of pandemics? Lessons learned from Ebola in Guinea. In Let’s Talk Development.
Too young to die: Age and death from COVID-19 around the globe. In Let’s Talk Development.
The intergenerational mortality tradeoff of COVID-19 lockdown policies in low- and middle-income countries. In Let’s Talk Development, Vox EU/CPR and Ideas for India.
How to tame COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Edutainment and lotteries? In Let’s Talk Development.
Getting a sharper picture of the COVID-19 pandemic: how do seroprevalence surveys help for 7 Colombian cities? In Let’s Talk Development.
COVID-19: can behavior insights address vaccine hesitancy and increase take-up? In Let’s Talk Development.
Projecting the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review of available tools. In Let’s Talk Development.
Service delivery to the poor: A labor of love or just another job. In Let’s Talk Development.
Skipping school and how to reduce it? The value of information and incentivizing parents vs. children in Development Impact
Cigarettes or the Greek Islands? Did the deal my dad offer me have lasting effects? in “Let’s Talk Development”
Cigarettes or the Greek Islands? The deal my dad offered me, in “Let’s Talk Development”
Measuring Quality of Health Care Using Video vignettes on RBF Health
Should cash transfers systematically be paid to mothers? in “Let’s Talk Development”
Risk, Sex and Lotteries. Can lotteries be used as incentives to prevent risky behaviors? in Development Impact.
Can incentives lead to sustained impacts? The case of rewarding safe sex, in Development Impact, January 2015. (cross-posted on RBF blog).
From “Power to the People” to “Information is Power”, in Development Impact, October 2014.
Stratified randomization and the FIFA World Cup, in Development Impact, June 2014.
Risking Your Health, in Investing in Health (also in French and Spanish)
Public Randomization Ceremonies, in Development Impact, June 2013 (also cross-posted, in English and in French, on RBF blog.
Transferts monétaires au Burkina Faso: pour quels enfants les conditions sont-elles importantes? Blog Africa Can…End Poverty, February 2013.
For which children do conditions matter in conditional cash transfers? Blog Development Impact, January 2013.
Rewarding Safe Sex, in Africa Can…End Poverty, March 2012.
Professional Hazard: Migrant Miners Are More Likely to Be Infected with HIV, in Africa Can…End Poverty, February 2012.
HIV/AIDS, the silent war in Africa, in Africa Can…End Poverty, July 2011.
Could easier access to AIDS treatment increase risky sexual behaviors?, in Let’s Talk Development, February 2011.
Is male promiscuity the main route of HIV/AIDS transmission in Africa?, in Africa Can…End Poverty, July 2011.
Rivalité fraternelle au Burkina Faso, in Africa Can…End Poverty, August 2010.