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Hiring effective health promoters

Project Active from 1 Feb 2025 to 30 Sep 2026 State Effectiveness

This project investigates whether providing more information on job applicants when hiring health promoters (HPs) leads to better public health outcomes in Mozambique.

Researchers

Dean Yang

Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan

James Allen

Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI

Hang Yu

Assistant Professor, Economics, Peking University

Tanya Rosenblat

Professor, Economics, University of Michigan

João Manuel

Centro de Investigação Operacional da Beira

James Riddell

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Basit Zafar

Professor, Economics, University of Michigan

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