Data and Code for: Community-Based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone's Ebola Outbreak

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Darin Christensen, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles ; Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago. Harris School of Public Policy; Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University; Bilal Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley; Maarten Voors, Wageningen University

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Project Citation:

Christensen, Darin, Dube, Oeindrila, Haushofer, Johannes, Siddiqi, Bilal, and Voors, Maarten. Data and Code for: Community-Based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-10-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120764V1

Project Description

Summary: Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested. We evaluate the impact of Community Care Centers: a new crisis response model designed to allay fears about western medical care and, thus, encourage early reporting, isolation, and treatment. We employ new panel data on reported Ebola cases and a difference-in-difference design and find that Community Care Centers dramatically increased reporting, potentially reducing the spread of Ebola. Our results highlight how community-based efforts to increase confidence in health systems can be critical for crisis management.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Ebola; Health systems; Epidemic containment; Africa

JEL Classification:
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: Africa, Sierra Leone

Time Period(s): 8/10/2014 – 4/26/2015

Collection Date(s): 8/10/2014 – 4/26/2015

Universe:

- Reported Ebola cases by week and geographic section.

- Data on placement of CCCs per section week.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; clinical data

Methodology

Data Source: Epi Info Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) database, implemented and maintained by the MoHS with support from the CDC.

Unit(s) of Observation: Section week

Geographic Unit: Section

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