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Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Effectiveness of Reminder Messages for Recruitment

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  • Heinrich Hock
  • Michael Levere
  • David Wittenburg

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This brief summarizes findings from an experiment to assess messaging strategies for final reminder postcards sent to 146,548 beneficiaries.

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  • Heinrich Hock & Michael Levere & David Wittenburg, "undated". "Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Effectiveness of Reminder Messages for Recruitment," Mathematica Policy Research Reports badf9d170b124bc8abab052bc, Mathematica Policy Research.
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