Ghana – Heather E. Lanthorn

Hey, you’re sick? Can we know where you live? (simple experiments, complicated designs)

I have been working on a blog for 3ie (*now posted, here!), based on a Delhi seminar talk I gave recently, in turn based on this paper and this blog on using text messages to increase completion of anti-malarial treatment. Not all of the material I initially wrote will appear in the final blog –ContinueContinue reading “Hey, you’re sick? Can we know where you live? (simple experiments, complicated designs)”

Learning by asking: a modest proposal to engage those who did the doing

This post was originally published at Innovations for Poverty Action. it represents an effort to follow-through on some themes I have raised before and hope to continue to raise. Most development interventions are carried out and delivered by local research staff and residents. Such implementation is rarely a straightforward ‘technical’ operation but, rather, there isContinueContinue reading “Learning by asking: a modest proposal to engage those who did the doing”