A5044005210- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Yale University
2021-2022
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, tend optimistically overstate their compliance for wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large act greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial Bangladesh involving hundreds thousands (although mostly men) over 2-month period. Colored masks various construction were handed out free charge, accompanied by range mask-wearing promotional activities inspired marketing research....
Author(s): Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H; Styczynski, Ashley; Haque, Ashraful; Kabir, Md. Alamgir Kabir; Bates-Jeffries, Ellen; Crawford, Emily; Benjamin-Chung, Jade; Raihan, Shabib; Rahman, Shadman; Benhachmi, Salim; Zaman, Neeti; Winch, Peter J; Hossain, Maqsud; Mahmud Reza, Hasan; All Jaber, Abdullah; Gulshan Momen, Shawkee; Laz Bani, Faika; Aura; Saiha Huq, Tahrima; Luby, Stephen P; Mushfiq Mobarak, Ahmed | Abstract: Mask usage remains low across many parts of the world during COVID- 19...
Background: A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can slow the spread COVID-19 and save lives, but mask usage remains low across many parts world, strategies to increase remain untested unclear.Methods: We conducted a cluster-randomized trial community-level promotion in rural Bangladesh involving 341,830 adults 600 villages.We employed series promote usage, including free household distribution surgical or cloth masks, at markets mosques, advocacy by Imams during...