Alex Armand
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia
Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia Open
Copyright: © 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 Sc…
View article: Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Open
We 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 assigne…
View article: Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Open
We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment …
View article: Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India
Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India Open
This study explores the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Our theoretical framework takes account of the…
View article: Let's call! Using the phone to increase vaccine acceptance
Let's call! Using the phone to increase vaccine acceptance Open
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 ac…
View article: Windows of peace: the effect of ceasefires on economic recovery
Windows of peace: the effect of ceasefires on economic recovery Open
While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic reco…
View article: Countering misinformation with targeted messages: Experimental evidence using mobile phones
Countering misinformation with targeted messages: Experimental evidence using mobile phones Open
Widespread misconceptions can be critical, especially in times of crisis. Through a field experiment, we study how to address such wrong or inaccurate beliefs using messages delivered to individual citizens using mobile phones. We focus on…
View article: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries Open
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 …
View article: Coordination and the poor maintenance trap: an experiment on public infrastructure in India
Coordination and the poor maintenance trap: an experiment on public infrastructure in India Open
Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both provider…
View article: COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low and Middle Income Countries, and Implications for Messaging
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low and Middle Income Countries, and Implications for Messaging Open
We analyze COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 15 survey samples covering ten low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa, and South America, Russia (an upper-middle-income country), and the United States, using survey response…
View article: The ocean and early-childhood mortality and development
The ocean and early-childhood mortality and development Open
Evidence on the exact mechanism linking in utero shocks with early-childhood outcomes remains scarce because biological factors are often tangled with changes in parental inputs. This paper addresses this issue by exploiting exogenous vari…
View article: Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games
Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games Open
Corruption 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…
View article: Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Open
Natural 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…
View article: Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia
Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia Open
Adverse climate shocks negatively affect small-holder farmers in developing countries keeping them trapped in poverty. Such shocks not only affect their productivity and investments, but also force them to divert resources from other prior…
View article: The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Open
This 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 househo…
View article: The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization Open
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 a…
View article: Community toilet use in Indian slums: willingness-to-pay and the role of informational and supply side constraints
Community toilet use in Indian slums: willingness-to-pay and the role of informational and supply side constraints Open
Stata do files and ready-for-analysis data used in the analysis published in the Final Report to 3ie on the project, "Community toilet use in Indian slums: willingness-to-pay and the role of informational and supply side constraints" (proj…
View article: Community toilet use in Indian slums
Community toilet use in Indian slums Open
Authors 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 toile…
View article: replication files.zip
replication files.zip Open
:unav
View article: Using information to break the political resource curse in natural gas management in Mozambique
Using information to break the political resource curse in natural gas management in Mozambique Open
Stata do files and ready-for-analysis data used in the analysis published in the Final Report to 3ie on the project, "Using information to break the political resource curse in natural gas management in Mozambique" (project code TWR2.1008)…
View article: Using information to break the political resource curse in natural gas management in Mozambique
Using information to break the political resource curse in natural gas management in Mozambique Open
About 3ieThe International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed, equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.We support the generation and effective use of high-quality evidence to inform decision-making a…
View article: replication files.zip
replication files.zip Open
Contains data, code and folder structure to replicate this study
View article: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers Open
This article uses a novel identification strategy to measure power in the household. Our strategy is to
\nelicit women’s willingness to pay to receive a cash transfer instead of their spouse receiving it. We
\nselected participants from a …