James Allen IV

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Teaching and Incentives: Substitutes or Complements?
July 2021 - Working Paper28976
Author(s) - James Allen IV, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang & Hang Yu
Interventions to promote learning are often categorized into supply- and demand-side approaches. In a randomized experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand intervention, respectively: teaching via targeted feedback,...
Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing: An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
April 2021 - Working Paper28716
Author(s) - Dean Yang, James Allen IV, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV & Hang Yu
Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...
Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat COVID-19
April 2021 - Working Paper28651
Author(s) - James Allen IV, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang & Hang Yu
Can informing people of high community support for social distancing encourage them to do more of it? In theory, the impact of such an intervention on social distancing is ambiguous, and depends on the relative magnitudes of free-riding and perceived-infectiousness effects. We randomly assigned a...
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