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 and Ahmed Mobarak

No 28734, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

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Date: 2021-04
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