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Does reducing stigma increase the take-up of rental assistance?
Subtle language changes in city communications can decrease stigma surrounding the receipt of rental assistance and increase interest in and application requests for city assistance programs.

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Does the presentation of information affect residents’ response to government communications?
Residents are more likely to act on government communications that use a formal tone and appearance, in part because formality acts as a signal for credibility and importance.

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What predicts policymakers’ decisions to adopt evidence-based strategies?
Organizational inertia may explain why only about 30% of behavioral interventions tested in field experiments end up being adopted by the city department that tested them.
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Does reducing stigma increase the take-up of rental assistance?
Subtle language changes in city communications can decrease stigma surrounding the receipt of rental assistance and increase interest in and application requests for city assistance programs.

How can public health organizations recruit diverse talent?
We are running a “megastudy” to test over a dozen interventions aimed at recruiting nurses and nursing assistants to Denmark.

How do we reduce burnout for 911 dispatchers?
A low-cost program aimed at increasing dispatchers’ perceptions of social support and belonging at work reduced burnout and turnover.

How did public servant perceptions predict employee well-being and burnout during COVID-19?
One in three public servants surveyed during the pandemic experienced burnout and one in five experienced compassion fatigue.

How can we reduce burnout among correctional officers?
A pilot program aimed at increasing feelings of peer support improved officers’ well-being and changed attitudes toward incarcerated people.

How does sexual harassment and social connectedness affect burnout in physician mothers?
In a survey that included an embedded experiment, we analyzed how positive and negative social interactions affect burnout of female physicians.
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