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      • April 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Indigenous Wisdom and the Climate Crisis

      By: Reshmaan Hussam
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      Hussam, Reshmaan. "Indigenous Wisdom and the Climate Crisis." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-051, April 2022.
      • March 2022
      • Article

      Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
      Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth microentrepreneurs; while the...  View Details
      Keywords: Microentrepreneurs; Community Information; Field Experiment; Loans; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans; Information; Mathematical Methods; India
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field." American Economic Review 112, no. 3 (March 2022): 861–898.
      • January 2022
      • Case

      Indigenous Wisdom and the Climate Crisis

      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam, Nadia Ahmad and Grace Liu
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      Hussam, Reshmaan N., Nadia Ahmad, and Grace Liu. "Indigenous Wisdom and the Climate Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 722-050, January 2022.
      • January 2022
      • Background Note

      Native American Incarceration

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jordan Naylor
      In the early twenty-first century the Native American populations of the United States continued to live with the legacy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural destruction. Although other minority groups had increasingly been able to make their voices heard,...  View Details
      Keywords: Colonialism; Incarceration; Social Issues; Race; Equality and Inequality; History
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Sophus A. Reinert, and Jordan Naylor. "Native American Incarceration." Harvard Business School Background Note 722-042, January 2022.
      • January 2022
      • Article

      Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani and Natalia Rigol
      We test the predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing in rural India. To track handwashing, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing...  View Details
      Keywords: Handwashing; Habit; Monitoring; Behavior; Health; Motivation and Incentives
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani, and Natalia Rigol. "Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–41. (Lead Article.)
      • November 2021
      • Teaching Note

      The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future

      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam
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      Hussam, Reshmaan N. "The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-025, November 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Teaching Note

      Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

      By: Reshmaan Hussam
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      Hussam, Reshmaan. "Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 721-034, February 2021.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Behavioral Transmission

      By: Reshmaan Hussam and Dayea Oh
      Behavior change programs, including much of early education curricula, assume the positive transmission of behavior from one context to another. We randomize a hand hygiene edutain-ment program in schools in Bangladesh to trace school-to-home transmission of...  View Details
      Keywords: Handwashing; Interventions; Public Health; Health; Behavior; Change; Bangladesh
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, and Dayea Oh. "Behavioral Transmission." Working Paper, January 2022.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Psychosocial Value of Employment

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra
      In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field...  View Details
      Keywords: Psychosocial Wellbeing; Employment; Refugees; Social Psychology; Well-being
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Fatima Zahra. "The Psychosocial Value of Employment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28924, June 2021. (Revision Requested, American Economic Review.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries

      By: Abhijit Banerjee, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, Reshmaan Hussam and Aakash Mohpal
      New research clearly identifies trust as an important driver of the demand for healthcare. However, doctors who realize that patients may not trust them may also alter their behavior in response. We assemble a large dataset that assesses clinical performance using...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Developing Countries and Economies; Trust
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      Banerjee, Abhijit, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, Reshmaan Hussam, and Aakash Mohpal. "The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries." Working Paper, December 2020.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Abu Shonchoy, Chikako Yamauchi and Kailash Pandey
      While models of technology adoption posit learning as the basis of behavior change, information campaigns in public health frequently fail to change behavior. We design an information campaign embedding hand-hygiene edutainment within popular dramas using mobile...  View Details
      Keywords: Handwashing; Public Health; Health; Information; Behavior; Change
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Abu Shonchoy, Chikako Yamauchi, and Kailash Pandey. "Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh." Working Paper, December 2021.
      • April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
      • Case

      Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam and Holly Fetter
      The late 20th century saw a dramatic shift in the criminal justice system of the United States. While incarceration rates had remained stable through the 1960s, they quintupled by the 2000s to 707 per 100,000, far exceeding that of all other nations in the world. By...  View Details
      Keywords: Criminal Justice System; Incarceration; Race; Prejudice and Bias; United States
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      Hussam, Reshmaan N., and Holly Fetter. "Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 720-034, April 2020. (Revised June 2020.)
      • April 2019 (Revised October 2021)
      • Case

      The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future

      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam
      In August 2017, the Myanmar military commenced a brutal pogrom of the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The genocidal campaign marked the most recent and decisive of a series of ethnic cleansing efforts fueled by contention around race, religion, and...  View Details
      Keywords: War; Ethnicity; Race; Religion; Identity; Change; Resource Allocation; Social Issues; Myanmar; Africa; Bangladesh
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      Hussam, Reshmaan N. "The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future." Harvard Business School Case 719-068, April 2019. (Revised October 2021.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Throwing the Baby Out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh

      By: Nina Buchmann, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster and Reshmaan Hussam
      The 1994 discovery of arsenic in ground water in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health effort to test all tubewells in the country and convince nearly one-quarter of the population to switch to arsenic-free drinking water sources. According to numerous sources,...  View Details
      Keywords: Child Mortality; Arsenic; Unintended Consequences; Health Disorders; Safety; Outcome or Result; Bangladesh
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      Buchmann, Nina, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, and Reshmaan Hussam. "Throwing the Baby Out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25729, April 2019.
      • November 2018
      • Technical Note

      Colonialism and Imperialism

      By: Reshmaan Hussam and Grace Liu
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, and Grace Liu. "Colonialism and Imperialism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-035, November 2018.
      • November 2018 (Revised January 2021)
      • Technical Note

      Human Rights

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Mattias E. Fibiger and Grace Liu
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Mattias E. Fibiger, and Grace Liu. "Human Rights." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-036, November 2018. (Revised January 2021.)
      • November 2018 (Revised February 2022)
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      Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Namrata Arora
      In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. The country, once unceremoniously dubbed a “basket case”...  View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Adaptation; Environmental Management; Problems and Challenges; Immigration; Bangladesh
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Sophus A. Reinert, and Namrata Arora. "Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom." Harvard Business School Case 719-008, November 2018. (Revised February 2022.)
      • December 2017 (Revised January 2022)
      • Technical Note

      The BGIE Twenty (2022 version)

      By: Alberto Cavallo, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons and Matthew Weinzierl
      The purpose of this technical note is to explain the BGIE Twenty, an “idea-kit” that serves as the intellectual backbone of the BGIE course. Each year, the BGIE professors decide on the twenty ideas that we believe are the most important for students to study in...  View Details
      Keywords: Ideas; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Analysis
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      Cavallo, Alberto, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons, and Matthew Weinzierl. "The BGIE Twenty (2022 version)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-032, December 2017. (Revised January 2022.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market

      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam
      I consider the widespread phenomenon of sex ratios skewed by parental preference. Edlund (1999) proposes that if parents prefer sons and permit only women to marry up in social class, sexes will segregate by wealth in equilibrium. Using data on 30,000 Indian children,...  View Details
      Keywords: Sex Selection; Marriage Market; Bargaining Power; Gender; Information Technology; Household; Outcome or Result; India
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      Hussam, Reshmaan N. "Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-029, September 2017. (Revised October 2020.)
      • 2017
      • Article

      The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

      By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
      Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; India; Business Training; RCT; Health Care and Treatment; Training; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; India
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      Das, Jishnu, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam, and Abhijit Banerjee. "The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Science 354, no. 6308 (October 7, 2016): 80–91.
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