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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Interventions to bolster benefits take-up: Assessing intensity, framing, and targeting of government outreach.

Elizabeth Linos, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Vincent Dorie, Jesse Rothstein

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Payment integrity in government programs: Takeaways from incorporating the behavioral sciences in US federal evaluations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Reply to Guido et al.: The importance of credibility in outreach interventions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Leveraging health care settings to strengthen trust in light-touch benefit outreach.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Interventions to bolster benefits take-up: Assessing intensity, framing, and targeting of government outreach.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elizabeth LinosHarvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0003-1724-9139
Jessica Lasky-FinkHarvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0001-9512-6842
Vincent DorieCode for America, Oakland, CA 94612.ORCID 0000-0002-9576-3064
Jesse RothsteinGoldman School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-6140-0858

Funding

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation NoneCalifornia 100 None
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behaviorally informed "nudges" are widely used in government outreach but are often seen as too modest to address poverty at scale. In four field experiments over 2 y (

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PovertyCaliforniaCOVID-19HumansTaxesbehavioral interventionsexperimentssocial safety net

Identifiers

PMID40924444
PMCPMC12452829

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