Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312258 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 207
Publisher: 
Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.
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.
Subjects: 
Reproduction
Replication
Mental health
COVID-19 pandemic
JEL: 
B41
C12
I12
I18
J16
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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