IPA Study on Mask-Wearing in The New York Times
A New York Times article on the state of continuing mask use cites an IPA study in Bangladesh that found supporting community mask-wearing reduced COVID-19 cases.
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In The New York Times, Researchers Call for Mask-Wearing
Researchers Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, and Stephen P. Luby write in The New York Times on what a study in Bangladesh affirms about the importance of wearing masks to prevent COVID-19.
New York Times on Developing Rohingya Muppets With Sesame Workshop in Bangladesh
The New York Times reports on IPA's work with Sesame Workshop in Bangaldesh, creating Noor and Aziz, two new Rohingya muppets designed around the needs of children in the world's largest refugee camp.
Researchers Share Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in New York Times Op-Ed
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Oeindrila Dube and Katherine Baicker discuss how lessons from the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa can be applied in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors discuss Dube's IPA study, coauthored with Darin Christensen, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi, and Maarten Voors, which found that two social accountability interventions led more patients to report Ebola cases and resulted in lower mortality rates.
Liberia Education Intervention Evaluated by IPA Mentioned in New York Times
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof discusses a program to outsource management of schools in Liberia that is being evaluated by IPA. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
Evaluation of Outsourcing in Liberian Schools Mentioned in New York Times
In a New York Times Fixes column, Tina Rosenberg mentions an IPA evaluation on outsourcing in Liberian schools. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
Liberia Education Study Mentioned in the New York Times Magazine
In the New York Times Magazine, Peg Tyre mentions an IPA evaluation on outsourcing in Liberian schools. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
IPA Research on Cash Benchmarking in Rwanda Featured in the New York Times
In the New York Times Fixes Column, Marc Gunther writes about an IPA study on cash benchmarking in Rwanda. The study compared how a standard WASH and nutrition program compares to just giving people cash, measuring impacts on indicators of poverty and malnutrition. While that column was released before the results were out, you can read Gunther’s reflections on the implications of the results on his blog, here.
IPA Research on Values Training Featured in the New York Times
In an op-ed in the New York Times, David Leonhardt discusses the findings of IPA's evaluation of a Christian business training program in the Philippines. Leonhardt explores the results' implications with project researcher and IPA founder Dean Karlan, who concludes that the "findings are 'cautiously positive' for the power of religion."
The evaluation found that a program that combined health and livelihood training with sessions on religious values improved participants' incomes while a health and livelihood training alone did not. However, the religious program decreased participants' self-perception of their relative economic wellbeing. Read our full summary of the evaluation here.
IPA Uganda Deforestation Study in New York Times
The New York Times discusses the findings, published in Science, that small payments to Ugandan landowners can help avoid their cutting down forest, home to endangered Chimpanzees.
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