On January 13, 2025, an article on MRR's Behavioral Economics & Beyond series was published on USAID's online hub, Agrilinks. 

In early 2024, MRR hosted a 2-day Behavioral Economics Forum, which featured the research of economists and psychologists across a range of topics relevant to rural development programming. Following the Forum, we launched a webinar series, with each webinar taking a close-up look at a different theme.

This article highlights present bias, locus of control, and depression, discussing how each of these phenomena can affect the uptake and success of development interventions.  

Read the article at Agrilinks.