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Y-RISE @YaleRISE

Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale. We are developing the science behind scaling up policy interventions.

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Y-RISE@YaleRISE
28 Oct 2025
Call for Papers: Y-RISE Conference, Feb 2026. Deadline: Nov 7, 2025. We welcome papers related to the complexities of scaling policies. See our website here for more details on complexities of scaling. yrise.yale.edu/ Submit papers here forms.gle/WbTnxPr5S5fX27hB6

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30 Oct 2025
NEW submission deadline - Nov 14, 2025. Send in your papers!
Y-RISE@YaleRISE
28 Oct 2025
Call for Papers: Y-RISE Conference, Feb 2026. Deadline: Nov 7, 2025. We welcome papers related to the complexities of scaling policies. See our website here for more details on complexities of scaling. yrise.yale.edu/ Submit papers here forms.gle/WbTnxPr5S5fX27hB6
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28 Oct 2025
Call for Papers: Y-RISE Conference, Feb 2026. Deadline: Nov 7, 2025. We welcome papers related to the complexities of scaling policies. See our website here for more details on complexities of scaling. yrise.yale.edu/ Submit papers here forms.gle/WbTnxPr5S5fX27hB6

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Y-RISE@YaleRISE
16 Sep 2024
Reminder: Tomorrow (or today, depending on your time zone) - Tue, Sep 17- is the deadline for papers for the Y-RISE Annual Conference.
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9 Sep 2024
We have extended the deadline for papers to Sep 17, 2024 for the annual Y-RISE conference 2024.
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9 Sep 2024
We have extended the deadline for papers to Sep 17, 2024 for the annual Y-RISE conference 2024.
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Yale Economic Growth Center@YaleEGC
18 Mar 2024
Testing ways to get health interventions transported to & taken up in remote, under-resourced areas: @mushfiq_econ (@YaleSOM @YaleEconomics @YaleRISE) & coauthors @nmeriggi Voorst & Kangbai research in #SierraLeone in @YaleInsights: insights.som.yale.edu/insigh…

Going the Last Mile (with Evidence)

A study by Yale’s Mushfiq Mobarak and his colleagues found that nurses on motorbikes with vaccine-stocked coolers could help increase vaccination rates in rural Sierra Leone, showing that it is...

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Y-RISE@YaleRISE
6 Oct 2023
Talk about a program at #scale - building sanitation infrastructure & enabling behavior change in a country of 1.4 BILLION. Did it work? @YaleRISE founder @mushfiq_econ & co-authors Urmila Chatterjee, Juan Munoz and @imansen2 carefully assemble multiple data sets to answer. 1/n
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6 Oct 2023
3. Wide spatial variation in progress, across & b/w states. 🙁 4. Substantial gains in regular toilet use 2014-19 have slowed, reversing in many states, particularly marginalized HH. 😞3/n
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6 Oct 2023
Not a new conclusion but worth reiterating: sustaining #behaviorchange and building new #habits at scale is not easy. Need constant innovation on the demand-side. 4/n
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4 Oct 2023
Govt. must often procure goods & services at scale - how does the contracting structure affect outcomes? Catherine Wolfram, @tedmiguel, our own @e_o_hsu & @BerkouwerS study this in Kenya: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-c….

How contracting structures affect project outcomes in public procurement

Each year, billions of dollars are spent on public infrastructure projects which are often plagued by over-running costs, poor quality, or time delays. This column focuses on an under-studied...

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Y-RISE@YaleRISE
4 Oct 2023
3. Monitoring kind of mattered: randomized ex-post monitoring improved construction quality at AfDB sites but not WB sites. 6/n
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Y-RISE@YaleRISE
4 Oct 2023
So which is better? That well-worn answer: it depends. Bundled = faster connections but unbundled = longer-term quality which may reduce maintenance costs down the line. More discussions in the article. 7/n
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7 Sep 2023
In rural Sierra Leone, @nmeriggi (@The_IGC, @OxfordEconDept, @Oxford_CSAE ); M. Voors (@WUR); @mushfiq_econ (@YaleSOM); D. Kangbai (@mohs_sl); @NeelaSaldanha & @BatesJefferys (@YaleRISE) will evaluate mobile vaccine delivery teams w/ @mohs_sl & @Concern: ssrc.org/grantees/scaling-bu…
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7 Sep 2023
This will be excellent. Check it out!
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5 Sep 2023
✨This Thursday 9/7, open to anyone in SF: a conversation about bringing the startup mindset into philanthropy. At @southpkcommons with Elie Hassenfeld (@GiveWell) @tedmiguel @supKaur (@CEGA_UC ). RSVP at lu.ma/SPC-GiveWell
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