Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Jason Abaluck; Laura H Kwong; Ashley Styczynski; Ashraful Haque; Md. Alamgir Kabir; Ellen Bates-Jefferys; Emily Crawford; Jade Benjamin-Chung; Salim Benhachmi; Shabib Raihan; Shadman Rahman; Neeti Zaman; Peter J. Winch; Md. Maqsud Hossain; Hasan Mahmud Reza; Stephen P. Luby; Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

doi:10.3386/w28734

Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Jason Abaluck, Laura H Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque, Md. Alamgir Kabir, Ellen Bates-Jefferys, Emily Crawford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Salim Benhachmi, Shabib Raihan, Shadman Rahman, Neeti Zaman, Peter J. Winch, Md. Maqsud Hossain, Hasan Mahmud Reza, Stephen P. Luby & Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Working Paper 28734

DOI 10.3386/w28734

Issue Date April 2021

A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention tripled mask usage and is a cost-effective means of promoting public health.

This project was funded with a grant from Givewell. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Jason Abaluck, Laura H Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque, Md. Alamgir Kabir, Ellen Bates-Jefferys, Emily Crawford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Salim Benhachmi, Shabib Raihan, Shadman Rahman, Neeti Zaman, Peter J. Winch, Md. Maqsud Hossain, Hasan Mahmud Reza, Stephen P. Luby, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, "Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh," NBER Working Paper 28734 (2021), https://doi.org/10.3386/w28734.

Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

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