Researchers examine whether exposure to role models through a video documentary can change individual’s aspirations and their future-oriented investments, such as investments in their children’s education.

Researchers partner with the organisations BRAC and MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit to develop and study a way to treat or prevent depression among adolescents in low-resource settings.  

Can a psychological intervention enhance the known positive economic effects of cash transfers ?

Researchers partner with GiveDirectly to test whether a cash transfer or aspirational video can impact women’s control of household resources or experiences of intimate partner violence. 

Researchers examine whether positive income shocks, such as poverty alleviation programmes, can decrease suicides in Indonesia. 

Researchers test whether visualisation and planning interventions can impact preventive health investments.  

This study conducts a systematic review of the evidence on individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors for the mental health outcomes of children and adolescents who have been displaced to low-income and middle-income countries.

Researchers partner with the Busara Center for Behavioural Economics to deliver and evaluate a scalable cognitive behavioural therapy for young workseekers in Nairobi.