Background Many interventions delivered to improve health may benefit not only direct
recipients but also people in close physical or social proximity. Our objective was to review …

Low adoption of agricultural technologies holds large productivity consequences for
develo** countries. Many countries hire agricultural extension agents to communicate …

Social networks function as an important safety net in develo** countries, which often lack
formal financial instruments. Such networks are also an important source of information in …

Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and
possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments …

Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit
women's access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies. We …

We estimate the role of peer effects in technology adoption using data from a randomized
distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal …

There are few marketing studies of social learning about new technologies in low-income
countries. This paper examines how learning through opinion leaders and social networks …

This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at
encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a …

We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The
experiment resembles the many forms of interaction that business and community …

Abstract The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) is one of very few
long-standing, publicly available longitudinal cohort studies in a sub-Saharan African (SSA) …