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
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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.

  • 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.

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