Patrick Agte, Daniel R. Morales, Christopher A. Neilson, Sebastián Otero, Gautam Rao, "Incentives, Evidence, and Reminders for Bureaucrats: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Scale Up", NBER Working Paper No. 35291 (June 2026), 2026, doi: 10.3386/w35291.

@article{ rd-lastmileave_2026,
  title = "Incentives, Evidence, and Reminders for Bureaucrats: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Scale Up",
  author = "Agte, Patrick and Morales, Daniel R. and Neilson, Christopher A. and Otero, Sebastián and Rao, Gautam",
  journal = "NBER Working Paper No. 35291 (June 2026)",
  year = "2026",
  note = "wp",
  doi = "10.3386/w35291"
,
  abstract = "Scaling up effective policies often requires the attention of frontline bureaucrats with many competing responsibilities. In a nationwide scale-up experiment in the Dominican Republic, this paper tests whether sharing research evidence, offering incentives, providing implementation support, and sending reminders improve compliance with an evidence-based education policy."
,
  url_article = "https://www.nber.org/papers/w35291"
}