Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia.

Employing a clustered RCT this paper examines the short-term impact of a 12-month mHealth BCC campaign on health practices & outcomes among CCT beneficiaries in Indonesia. Our analysis reveals that the intervention led to substantial improvements in maternal health behavior (postnatal care, child vaccinations, hygiene practices) & outcomes (anemia rates). Adopting a heterogeneous treatment effect framework, we further show that improvements in maternal hygiene practices and anemia rates are closely linked to health knowledge gained by mothers through the sms campaign. In contrast, we provide suggestive evidence that improvements in other health indicators are more likely to be related to the reminder and nudge components of the intervention.

COVID-19 crisis in Cambodia: A dataset containing linked survey and administrative data of ninth-graders in rural areas.

Between 2019 and 2021, we collected detailed administrative data of grade 9 students from 54 lower-secondary schools in rural Cambodia. We also collected phone-survey data from these students in July and August 2020, to understand the implications of the nation-wide lockdown, that was implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020. The administrative data contain information on students' grades, school characteristics and teacher characteristics from the school year 2019-2020, as well as information about the students' enrollment in high school after the end of the school year (January 2021). This information is available for 3258 students. The phone-survey data contains information on students' socio-economic background, parental education and occupation, as well as students' study behavior, time use, educational aspirations and expectations, and perceptions of the COVID-19 crisis. This information is available for 2197 students.