This started as a sketch on a whiteboard: could we “shift the adoption curve” by targeting the right people instead of everyone? In this video, we take you from the idea to fieldwork: mapping networks household-by-household in remote Honduran villages, through a large randomized trial and the key finding: leveraging social contagion and network structure can make a smaller intervention act like a much larger one.
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