Background: Student dropouts are a major concern in developing countries; even before the pandemic, one out of three Brazilian students drop...
School closures due to Covid-19 have left 1.6 billion students around the world without in-person classes for a prolonged period of time. To...
In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that...
Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should ameliorate
those problems, mob...
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subject...
Parents in Malawi are compelled to marry off their under-age daughters in villages where child marriage is prevalent out of social image concerns. Alternative signals of social preferences can disrupt that signaling equilibrium and affect child marriage, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts.
Informational interventions often have enormous impacts on decision-making. Is it because those interventions make beliefs more accurate with respect to the ground truth, or because they reallocate attention towards the dimension they target -- perhaps even leading subjects to acquire decision-relevant information themselves?
Financial worries brought about by the threat of a drought capture poor farmers' attention, memory and impulse control in the Brazilian Northeast.
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