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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment?
Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, YimingCopyright: © 2025 The Authors Funding information: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (UIDB/00124/2020, UIDP/00124/2020 and Social Sciences DataLab - PINFRA/22209/2016), POR Lisboa, Portugal and POR Norte, Portugal (Social Sciences DataLab, PINFRA/22209/2016); This study experimentally assesses the effects of temporary wage subsidies on employment in North Macedonia. The target group consists of v...
Let’s Call!
Armand, Alex; Fracchia, Mattia; Vicente, Pedro C.In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we develop and test experimentally three phone-based interventions to increase vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. The first endorses the vaccine with a simple positive message. The second adds the activation of social memory on the country’s success in eradicating wild polio with vaccination campaigns. The third further adds a structured interaction with the participant t...
Religious proximity and misinformation
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; Kameshwara, Kalyan KumarWe investigate how religion concordance influences the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in two major Indian cities marked by Hindu–Muslim tensions, we randomly assigned a representative sample of slum residents to receive either a physician-delivered information campaign promoting health-related preventive practices, or uninformative contro...
Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games
Armand, Alex; Coutts, Alexander; Vicente, Pedro C.; Vilela, Ana Inês da SilvaCorruption is often harmful for economic development, yet it is difficult to measure due to its illicit nature. We propose a novel corruption game to characterize the interaction between actual political leaders and citizens, and implement it in Northern Mozambique. Contrary to the game-theoretic prediction, both leaders and citizens engage in corruption. Importantly, corruption in the game is correlated with r...
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries
Solís Arce, Julio S.; Warren, Shana S.; Meriggi, Niccolò F.; Scacco, Alexandra; McMurry, Nina; Voors, Maarten; Syunyaev, Georgiy; Malik, Amyn AbdulPublisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).; Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in lower-income countries, where large-scale vaccination is just beginning. We analyze COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 15 survey samples covering 10 low- and middle-income ...
The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio; Carneiro, Pedro; Lechene, ValérieThis article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on household expenditure on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of North Macedonia that offers cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The recipient is randomised across municipalities, with payments targeted to either the mother or the fat...
The reach of radio
Armand, Alex; Atwell, Paul; Gomes, Joseph F.We examine the role of FM radio in mitigating violent conflict. We collect original data on radio broadcasts encouraging defections during the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency. This constitutes the first quantitative evaluation of an active counterinsurgency policy that encourages defections through radio messages. Exploiting random topography-driven variation in radio coverage along with panel variation...
Community toilet use in Indian slums
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; Trivedi, BhartenduAuthors of this impact evaluation report examines if community toilet related supply-side improvements and information campaigns can have an impact on the users’ willingness to pay and the overall quality and usage of these community toilets in the cities of Lucknow and Kanpur in India.
Does information break the political resource curse?
Armand, Alex; Coutts, Alexander; Vicente, Pedro C.; Vilela, InesNatural resources can have a negative impact on the economy through corruption and civil conflict. This paper tests whether information can counteract this political resource curse. We implement a large-scale field experiment following the dissemination of information about a substantial natural gas discovery in Mozambique. We measure outcomes related to the behavior of citizens and local leaders through georef...