CORRECTING PERCEIVED SOCIAL DISTANCING NORMS TO COMBAT COVID-19

James Allen IV
Arlete Mahumane
James Riddell IV
Tanya Rosenblat
Dean Yang
Hang Yu

Working Paper 28651
http://www.nber.org/papers/w28651

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Faustino Lessitala provided top-notch leadership and field management. Patricia Freitag, Ryan McWay, and Maggie Barnard provided excellent research assistance. Julie Esch, Laura Kaminski, and Lauren Tingwall's grant management was world-class. This work is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel  Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Innovation in Government Initiative through a grant from The Effective Altruism Global Health and Development Fund (grant number IGI-1366), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office awarded through Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Peace & Recovery Program (grant number MIT0019-X9), the Michigan Institute for Teaching and Research in Economics (MITRE) Ulmer Fund (grant number G024289), and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (award number T32AG000221). Our protocols were reviewed and approved by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at the University of Michigan (Health Sciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB, approval number  HUM00113011) and the Mozambique Ministry of Health National Committee on Bioethics for Health (CNBS reference number 302/CNBS/20). The study was submitted to the AEA RCT Registry on May 26, 2020, registration ID number AEARCTR-0005862. The content of this paper is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the aforementioned institutions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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