Increasing Retirement Savings through Access Points and Persuasive Messages: Evidence from Mexico

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Transaction costs impose a barrier to savings, but lowering them may have smaller impacts than expected due to other constraints, such as psychological biases. Within the context of retirement savings under defined contributions in the privatized pension system in Mexico, we analyze two staggered policies: an expansion of access channels for additional contributions through 7-Eleven stores, and the bundling of this policy with a media campaign providing persuasive reminders to save.

How to Promote Retirement Savings for Low-Income and Independent Workers: The Cases of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

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The objective of this document is to understand the potential that voluntary savings has to increase pension coverage for low-income and independent workers in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It comprehensively reviews supply, demand, and institutional barriers to retirement savings, and presents possible cost-effective solutions to overcome these barriers. The framework of solutions proposed consists of behavioral tools, in addition to financial and technological innovations, with high potential for impact on the long-term savings of independent and low-income workers.

Fighting the Power of an Image

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Entry by Emma Naslund-Hadley and Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte


Images are powerful, even mental images. If you cannot imagine yourself doing something, the odds that you will do it drops. International research that asks students to draw mathematicians and scientists, reveal that both boys and girls tend to picture them as male and white.

The power of Black women

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For the most excluded racial and ethnic communities, the current limits to freedom are not the first, evidence of this include other pandemics, poverty, and forced displacement. In the context of COVID-19, we have recognized that structural racism is one of the most significant challenges for the global agenda, along with the climate crisis and violence against women and children.

Strategies for School Reopenings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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When considering the reopening of schools, four key sanitary criteria should be
considered to ensure that students and teachers alike are safe:
A. Ensure social distancing;
B. Keep schools clean and disinfected;
C. Ensure that students and teachers enter school healthy and stay healthy; and
D. Provide easy access to hand washing facilities.

Strategies for School Reopenings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

When considering the reopening of schools, four key sanitary criteria should be
considered to ensure that students and teachers alike are safe:
A. Ensure social distancing;
B. Keep schools clean and disinfected;
C. Ensure that students and teachers enter school healthy and stay healthy; and
D. Provide easy access to hand washing facilities.

Detect, Prevent, Respond, Recover Digitally: Speaking the Same Language for Digital Solution in Public Health Emergencies

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This brochure summarizes key information for speaking the same language for digital solutions in public health emergencies. It introduces different types of digital interventions such as; crisis communication and engaging the public, epidemiological intelligence, clinical management for COVID-19 cases and remote services, management of the public private health systems response, health data management and analysis, and systems for recovery and returning to the new normal. Furthermore, the document answers what do we need in order to implement digital solutions.

Detect, Prevent, Respond, Recover Digitally: Speaking the Same Language for Digital Solution in Public Health Emergencies

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

This brochure summarizes key information for speaking the same language for digital solutions in public health emergencies. It introduces different types of digital interventions such as; crisis communication and engaging the public, epidemiological intelligence, clinical management for COVID-19 cases and remote services, management of the public private health systems response, health data management and analysis, and systems for recovery and returning to the new normal. Furthermore, the document answers what do we need in order to implement digital solutions.