提升农村社区健康意识：孟加拉国和印度的一项随机实验

Review of Economics and Statistics · 2022 · [{"name": "Abu Siddique", "affiliation": ["King's College - North Carolina", "King's College London"]}, {"name": "Tabassum Rahman", "affiliation": ["University of Newcastle Australia"]}, {"name": "Debayan Pakrashi", "affiliation": ["Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur"]}, {"name": "Asad Islam", "affiliation": ["Sustainable Development Institute", "Centre for Development Economics", "Monash University"]}, {"name": "Firoz Ahmed", "affiliation": ["Khulna University", "Economic Policy Institute", "Technical University of Munich"]}]

中文摘要

向农村地区传递经过验证的信息是低收入国家面临的一项重大挑战。本文以传染病(COVID-19)全球暴发为背景，研究了向农村社区提供信息的问题。在2020年3月首次封锁两周后，我们在孟加拉国和印度农村地区开展了一项随机实验，通过电话传播健康信息。我们发现，相对于通过短信提供的信息，电话能够显著提高人们对健康指南的认知和遵守程度。我们还发现，女性的遵守程度明显更高，且这一效果在宣传活动开展三个月后依然存在。

Abstract

Abstract 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 outbreak of an infectious disease—COVID-19. Two weeks after the initial lockdown in March 2020, we conducted a randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh and India to disseminate health information over the phone. We find that relative to information provided via SMS, phone calls can significantly improve people’s awareness and compliance with health guidelines. We also find compliance to be substantially higher among women, which also persists after three months of the campaign.