Health
The world’s poor disproportionately suffer from ill health, which in turn makes adults less able to work and children less able to go to school. Unexpected health expenses can devastate a poor family’s fragile household budget. Improving the health of the poor will allow more people to create and seize opportunities to live a better life. The IPA projects listed below are helping us find out what interventions are the most effective in changing health outcomes to improve the lives of the poor. |
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The Impact of CARES Commitment Savings for Smoking Cessation in the Philippines Can financial incentives work to help people quit smoking? The CARES (Committed Action to Reduce and End Smoking) Program, creates a commitment contract that provides financial incentives for smokers who wish to quit smoking. Smokers offered the product were more likely to be smoke-free 6 and 12 months afterwards! Status: Complete |
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Impact of Rural Banking Program on Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya Testing the impact of formal savings accounts on savings, productive investment and expenditures among small-scale entrepreneurs in rural Western Kenya. Status: Complete |
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Saving for Health (Health and ROSCA Project, and Survivors’ Health and Income Project) in Kenya Testing the demand for and impact of commitment savings devices earmarked for health. Status: Ongoing |
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The Impact of CARES Commitment Savings for Smoking Cessation in the Philippines Can financial incentives work to help people quit smoking? The CARES (Committed Action to Reduce and End Smoking) Program, creates a commitment contract that provides financial incentives for smokers who wish to quit smoking. Smokers offered the product were more likely to be smoke-free 6 and 12 months afterwards! Status: Complete |
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Commitment Contracts and Employee Behavior in Mexico Commitment contracts are a proven way to encourage a given beneficial behavior. Will commitment contracts offered to employees of Latin America's largest microfinance bank affect employee well-being and work productivity? Status: Ongoing |
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The Impact of CARES Commitment Savings for Smoking Cessation in the Philippines Can financial incentives work to help people quit smoking? The CARES (Committed Action to Reduce and End Smoking) Program, creates a commitment contract that provides financial incentives for smokers who wish to quit smoking. Smokers offered the product were more likely to be smoke-free 6 and 12 months afterwards! Status: Complete |
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Credit with Health Insurance: Evidence from the Philippines Understanding health and risk-taking impacts of access to health insurance in order to estimate the optimal distribution channel for these micro-insurance products. Status: Ongoing |
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Barriers to the Demand for Condoms in Peru Examining the importance of perceptions of cost and quality in the demand for condoms in Peru. Status: Complete |
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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing: Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment in Kenya Bednets treated with insecticide are a proven way to deter mosquitoes and prevent deadly malaria. But how can we get more people to use these potentially lifesaving items? Providing them free to expectant mothers resulted in more usage of the bednets than charging even a small fee. Status: Complete |
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Evaluating an Epicenter Scale-Up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing |
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Evaluating The Hunger Project's Epicenter Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of The Hunger Project’s (THP) broad epicenter development strategy to gain a deeper understanding of the links between health, education and economic development in the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Status: Ongoing |
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The Demand for Safe Water among Mothers of Young Children in Kenya Understanding adoption of point-of-use (POU) water treatment among mothers of young children. Status: Ongoing |
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Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Advice via SMS in Uganda Many teenagers lack access to reliable information about sexual and reproductive health, and the information gap can have big consequences. Can an SMS based service help fill the knowledge gap? Will teens use the service? Will their behavior change as a result? Status: Ongoing |
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules: A randomized control trial among schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing |
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Health Education for Microcredit Clients in Peru Evaluating the impact of a mother and child nutrition health training on the health of microcredit clients and their children, as well as on the sustainability of the partner MFI. Status: Complete |
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Evaluating the Microfinance and Health Protection Initiative in Benin Evaluating the impact of solidarity lending, health education, and provision of health products with Freedom From Hunger and PADME in Benin. Status: Ongoing |
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Evaluating The Hunger Project's Epicenter Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of The Hunger Project’s (THP) broad epicenter development strategy to gain a deeper understanding of the links between health, education and economic development in the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Status: Ongoing |
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Healthcare and Health Status in India Identifying the determinants of health among the rural population of Udaipur district. Status: Complete |
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Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing |
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Measuring Demand for Hospitalization Insurance in the Philippines Examining the take-up of a health insurance product offered to microfinance clients in order to study price sensitivity and assess the extent of adverse selection. Status: Complete |
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Credit with Health Insurance: Evidence from the Philippines Understanding health and risk-taking impacts of access to health insurance in order to estimate the optimal distribution channel for these micro-insurance products. Status: Ongoing |
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Credit with Health Insurance: Evidence from the Philippines Understanding health and risk-taking impacts of access to health insurance in order to estimate the optimal distribution channel for these micro-insurance products. Status: Ongoing |
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Household Clean Water Technology in Northern Ghana: Valuation, Use, and Impact This study evaluates the effectiveness of a particular household water treatment while addressing questions of broad interest. We will offer individual rural households the opportunity to purchase the filter at randomized prices, uncovering true willingness to pay through our elicitation mechanism. By staggering the sale of the product within villages and mapping social networks carefully, we will provide new evidence on the evolution of demand for health goods. Status: Ongoing |
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Household Clean Water Technology in Northern Ghana: Valuation, Use, and Impact This study evaluates the effectiveness of a particular household water treatment while addressing questions of broad interest. We will offer individual rural households the opportunity to purchase the filter at randomized prices, uncovering true willingness to pay through our elicitation mechanism. By staggering the sale of the product within villages and mapping social networks carefully, we will provide new evidence on the evolution of demand for health goods. Status: Ongoing |
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Impact of Household Water Connections in Morocco Many people in the developing world lack access to clean water. Can providing clean water make kids healthier? Will children attend school more often? Will adults be able to work more regularly? Status: Complete |
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Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water in Kenya Lack of clean water makes millions of children sick each year, affecting their ability to live a full life. A new innovation, bulk chlorine dispensers placed near communal water sources, could be a major new tool for fighting child mortality. By providing families with convenient and cheap access to clean water, chlorine dispensers could save the lives of up to a quarter of a million children each year. Status: Ongoing |
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The Demand for Safe Water among Mothers of Young Children in Kenya Understanding adoption of point-of-use (POU) water treatment among mothers of young children. Status: Ongoing |
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Household Clean Water Technology in Northern Ghana: Valuation, Use, and Impact This study evaluates the effectiveness of a particular household water treatment while addressing questions of broad interest. We will offer individual rural households the opportunity to purchase the filter at randomized prices, uncovering true willingness to pay through our elicitation mechanism. By staggering the sale of the product within villages and mapping social networks carefully, we will provide new evidence on the evolution of demand for health goods. Status: Ongoing |
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Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water in Kenya Lack of clean water makes millions of children sick each year, affecting their ability to live a full life. A new innovation, bulk chlorine dispensers placed near communal water sources, could be a major new tool for fighting child mortality. By providing families with convenient and cheap access to clean water, chlorine dispensers could save the lives of up to a quarter of a million children each year. Status: Ongoing |
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Primary Schools in Kenya Examining the effectiveness of new teacher training in safe sex practices. Status: Complete |