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022			_a1945-7782
100			_a Ahmed, Firoz _9119021
100			_a Islam, Asad _9119022
100			_a Pakrashi, Debayan _9119023
100			_a Rahman, Tabassum _9119024
100			_a Siddique, Abu _9119025
100			_aVlassopoulos, Michael _9119026
245		0	_aImproving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic
260			_bAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
260			_c2024
300			_a422-455
520			_aThis paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus information on COVID-19 improves mental health ten months postintervention, leading to reductions of 20 percent in the prevalence of moderate and severe stress and 33 percent in depression. Our results suggest that this type of low-cost intervention ( _14 per person) can be effective in providing rapid psychological support to vulnerable groups in times of crises.
650			_a Human Development
650			_a Income Distribution
650			_a Migration _9261
650			_a Non-labor Discrimination, Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Development: Human Resources _9119027
650			_aHealth
650			_aHealth Behavior, Health: Government Policy _9119028
856			_uhttps://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210655
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