TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brodeur, Abel
AU  - Fiala, Lenka
AU  - Fitzgerald, Jack
AU  - Kujansuu, Essi
AU  - Valenta, David
AU  - Rogeberg, Ole
AU  - Bensch, Gunther
        TI  - A Comment on “Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic”
        PY  - 2025/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17782
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17782
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - reproduction
KW  - replication
KW  - mental health
KW  - COVID-19
        ER  -