Alex Armand won a grant from The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics
Research | 23 February 2022 Alex Armand won a grant from The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics

Alex Armand, with the project “Short and long-run effects of mass media on family planning: evidence from radio campaigns in Malawi”, won a scoping grant funded by The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics. The project aims at measuring the causal effect of family planning radio campaigns in Malawi, covering fertility and family planning dynamics in the last 40 years. Malawi represents a unique setting because, up to the early 2000s, showed slow adoption of contraceptive use and high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among the younger generations. Starting from the early 2000s, both governmental and non-governmental organizations started making an extensive use of the radio to implement communication programs encouraging people to engage in safe sexual behavior. Exposure to most of these radio programs were very high, with exposure being associated with a significantly higher likelihood of having discussed family planning at home.

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