The authors evaluated the impact of a ‘Team-Based Goals and Incentives’ (TBGI) intervention in Bihar, India, designed to improve front-line (community health) worker (FLW) performance and health-promoting behaviours related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
Many foreign aid agencies fund large-scale agricultural training for farmers in developingcountries, but little rigorous research has been conducted on whether these programs are effective. We conducted a rigorous impact evaluation of a U.S.government-funded farmer training program in Armenia.
The Power of Nutrition, launched in April 2015, is a partnership of investors and implementers committed to improving children’s nutrition and contributing to ending the cycle of undernutrition.
The Power of Nutrition, launched in April 2015, is a partnership of investors and implementers committed to improving children’s nutrition and contributing to ending the cycle of undernutrition.
The Power of Nutrition seeks to invest in evidence-based nutrition interventions in 5 to 10 high priority countries.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a rigorous randomized evaluation of the Indonesian Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project, also known as the Nutrition Project, to understand the project’s effects on stunting and related...
Findings from a rigorous randomized controlled trial of an innovative, comprehensive mHealth tool for frontline health workers (FLWs) in Bihar, India, found improvements in FLW-beneficiary interactions as well as improved health outcomes for mothers and children.
This report examines the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) subsidy offer on COBRA take-up, health insurance coverage, labor market outcomes, and financial well-being.
This report evaluates the impacts of a comprehensive package of interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health in Bihar, India, after two years of implementation. The evaluation, which compared changes in outcomes in districts that received the program to changes in other districts, found...
The Ananya program in Bihar, India, has implemented both supply- and demand-side strategies to improve coverage and uptake of maternal and child health, reproductive health, and nutrition services. This report summarizes the results of a process study of the program, which gathered information on the...
This issue brief summarizes the final report for Mathematica’s evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rwanda Threshold Program. The brief presents the study’s findings regarding the impacts of four programs related to democracy and governance.
This is the final report for Mathematica’s evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rwanda Threshold Program. The report presents the study’s findings regarding the impacts of four programs related to democracy and governance.
This issue brief explores the effect of adding the Team-Based Goals and Performance-Based Incentives (TBGI, see left) intervention to the Ananya program.
This report summarizes a rigorous randomized evaluation of a teamwork and goal-setting intervention in Bihar, India, that uses incentives and lessons from motivational theory to encourage teams of frontline health workers to improve maternal and child health in their communities.
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports.
This report presents preliminary findings from an evaluation funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the Rwanda Threshold Program, which aims to promote political rights, civil liberties, and political accountability through several initiatives, including strengthening police accountability,...
Low-quality or nonexistent sanitation affects health and hinders economic development, especially in the world's poorest countries.
The Social Security Administration is funding a random assignment evaluation of six demonstration projects to improve employment and other outcomes for youth ages 14 to 25 who are either receiving disability benefits or are at high risk of receiving them in the future.
The Millennium Challenge Account with Armenia (MCA) aims to increase household income and reduce poverty in rural Armenia through improved performance of the country’s agricultural sector.
The Millennium Challenge Account with Armenia (MCA) aims to increase household income and reduce poverty in rural Armenia through improved performance of the country’s agricultural sector.