This article explores the use of social signaling as a policy tool to sustainably affect
childhood immunization. In a 26-month field experiment with public clinics in Sierra Leone, I …

In recent years, scholars have examined the barriers to accessing public assistance
benefits. Research identifies learning, compliance, and psychological costs as deterring …

Scholars have focused on administrative burden or the costs of claiming public benefits.
Learning, psychological, and compliance costs can discourage program participation and …

Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters
program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on …

Previous research has established that an effective way to fight fuel poverty is to increase
levels of energy efficiency in residential buildings. A different strand of research has shown …

Access to banking services for the poorest individuals is key to reducing their vulnerability,
but are poor people likely to seek help from bank advisors? This study tests the hypothesis …

Although digital interfaces are increasingly pervading public administration, little is known
about how replacing face‐to‐face interaction with digital interfaces affects citizens' …

Reducing household energy consumption is critical to mitigating the effects of climate
change. However, changing behaviors around energy consumption is difficult. We introduce …

We analyze differences in tax filing between natives and immigrants, focusing on two
empirical examples. First, we study deductions for costs associated with traveling between …

We study the US rollout of eligibility expansions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program. Using administrative data from the US Department of Agriculture, we show that …