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To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data

Tina Rosenberg

December 04, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

Available statistics on hospital safety don’t tell the public what they need to know to make informed decisions. A dose of data to increase transparency and accountability could be the answer.

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To Fight Obesity, a Carrot, and a Stick

Tina Rosenberg

November 16, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Child obesity is decreasing even among poor children. Making healthy food more widely available, as well as using financial incentive programs, has greatly helped in increasing habits of healthy eating.

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In ‘Flipped' Classrooms, a Method for Mastery

Tina Rosenberg

October 23, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Putnam, Connecticut

Students have challenges retaining information, staying motivated, and keeping up with the pace of their classes. In a flipped mastery class, teachers make video lectures for students to watch at home, and at school students work on projects and problem solving activities related to the topics for the day. Instead of struggling alone, the flipped mastery class enables students to creatively work together and set individual goals.

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Turning Education Upside Down

Tina Rosenberg

October 09, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

What is the best use of a teacher’s precious face-to-face classroom time? It’s working one-on-one with students, not lecturing. To free up more time for the important stuff, some teachers are now recording videos of their lectures for students to watch at home.

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Escaping the Cycle of Scarcity

Tina Rosenberg

September 25, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Odisha

Poor people are less likely to make smart financial decisions; however, new research in the U.S. says this is not about intelligence but rather about a brain being overwhelmed with issues related to poverty. To combat that barrier of stress, organizations around the world are making financial decisions easier for people experiencing poverty by making borrowing easier and automating future financial planning, like 401(k) contributions.

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The Next Wireless Revolution, in Electricity

Tina Rosenberg

September 11, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Tanzania

Phone lines in Africa and South Asia would never have gotten to the poor - but these places have leapfrogged over last-century technology and gone straight to mobile phones. Now the same thing is happening with off-grid solar power: the fastest -- perhaps the only – way to power the poor.

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The Benefits of Cash Without Conditions

Tina Rosenberg

August 28, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya

Conditional cash transfers – giving the poor money if they do things that will make their children less poor, such as keep them in school – are the world’s most successful and widespread social program. Could it be possible, however, that the conditions aren’t necessary – just giving the poor money works just as well? In some circumstances, the answer seems to be yes.

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The Cure for the $1,000 Toothbrush

Tina Rosenberg

August 13, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Why do hospitals charge such outrageous prices for health care? Because they can – especially because they have the complicity of your insurance company. But some pioneering insurers are holding down costs.

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Revealing a Health Care Secret: The Price

Tina Rosenberg

July 31, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

An Oklahoma surgery center made news by posting its prices online – a revolutionary idea in an industry where consumers normally are buying blind. This is a big reason health care costs so much, but recent months have seen great advances in transparency.

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Talking Female Circumcision Out of Existence

Tina Rosenberg

July 17, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Kembata Alaba and Tembaro, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region

There is nothing more difficult than changing entrenched cultural practices, especially those as shrouded in taboos as female genital cutting. A grassroots approach in Ethiopia, however, has nearly completely eradicated this practice in villages that use it.

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