The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic in poor countries

E Miguel, AM Mobarak - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This
article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low-and …

[HTML][HTML] Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

L Crawfurd, DK Evans, S Hares, J Sandefur - Journal of development …, 2023 - Elsevier
Education systems regularly face unexpected school closures, whether due to disease
outbreaks, natural disasters, or other adverse shocks. In low-income countries where …

[PDF][PDF] Teaching and testing by phone in a pandemic

L Crawfurd, DK Evans, S Hares, J Sandefur - 2021 - cgdev.org
How did children learn while schools were closed during 2020 due to the COVID-19
pandemic? In low-income countries where internet access is scarce, distance learning is …

Psychological and psychosocial determinants of COVID related distancing behaviours: A systematic review

J Hanratty, R Leonard, SR O'Connor… - Campbell Systematic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The COVID‐19 pandemic, caused by the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus, has resulted in
illness, deaths and societal disruption on a global scale. Societies have implemented …

Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab

A Khan, S Nasim, M Shaukat, A Stegmann - Journal of Public Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Can communication designed to increase support for government policy and shift
perceptions of state capacity redress deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper …

The perception of environmental information disclosure on rural residents' pro-environmental behavior

Y Yang, Y Zhu, X Wang, Y Li - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rural residents' pro-environmental behavior plays a critical role in rural environmental
governance. This paper examines how the perception of government environmental …

Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for sha** public health and economic responses to the pandemic

IV Kohler, F Kämpfen, A Ciancio, J Mwera… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Utilizing population-based data from the Covid-19 phone survey (N= 2, 262) of the Malawi
Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) collected during June 2nd–August 17th …

Managing to learn

SA Beg, AE Fitzpatrick, A Lucas - 2023 - nber.org
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to
enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school …

Appointments: A more effective commitment device for health behaviors

L Derksen, J Kerwin, NO Reynoso, O Sterck - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Health behaviors are plagued by self-control problems, and commitment devices are
frequently proposed as a solution. We show that a simple alternative works even better …

Raising health awareness in rural communities: A randomized experiment in Bangladesh and India

A Siddique, T Rahman, D Pakrashi, A Islam… - Review of Economics …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Delivering validated information to rural areas is a major challenge in low-income countries.
In this paper, we study information provision to rural communities in the context of a global …