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A Comment on “Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic”

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  • Brodeur, Abel

    (University of Ottawa)

  • Fiala, Lenka

    (University of Bergen)

  • Fitzgerald, Jack

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Kujansuu, Essi

    (University of Innsbruck)

  • Valenta, David

    (University of Ottawa)

  • Rogeberg, Ole

    (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)

  • Bensch, Gunther

    (RWI)

Abstract

Vlassopoulos et al. (2024) find that after providing two hours of telephone counseling over three months, a sample of Bangladeshi women saw significant reductions in stress and depression after ten months. We find three anomalies. First, estimates are almost entirely driven by reverse-scored survey items, which are handled inconsistently both in the code and in the field. Second, participants in this experiment are reused from multiple prior experiments conducted by the paper’s authors, and estimates are extremely sensitive to the experiment from which participants originate. Finally, inconsistencies and irregularities in raw survey files raise doubts about the data.

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  • Brodeur, Abel & Fiala, Lenka & Fitzgerald, Jack & Kujansuu, Essi & Valenta, David & Rogeberg, Ole & Bensch, Gunther, 2025. "A Comment on “Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic”," IZA Discussion Papers 17782, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17782
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    Keywords

    reproduction; replication; mental health; COVID-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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