Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities: A Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh and India
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 […]
Addressing Learning Loss/Gap using Low-tech Remote Learning among Underprivileged in Developing Countries: The Bangladesh Case
Timeline: February 2022 to December 2023 Status: Ongoing Method: Quantitative Background of the Study: Despite high school enrolment rates, the learning outcomes of students in Bangladesh are very low, especially in rural areas (Islam, 2019). Approximately 44% of students cannot read simple words after completion of Grade 1 (USAID, 2021). In the National Student Assessment test […]