Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: Evidence fromthe Rohingya refugees

It could not 6‘Hand’ length is the length between the mid-point of the wrist’s distal transverse crease and the tip of the middle finger, and ‘finger’ width is the width of the index finger (see Figure A6 in Appendix A). [...] The process involved: (i) transforming each answer into an indicator, where a response on a 5- point Likert scale was coded as 1 for the highest two points and 0 for the remaining three; (ii) aggregating the indicators into a scale; (iii) subtracting the mean of the control group from each scale and dividing the result by the standard deviation (SD) of the control group. [...] High participation and attendance were likely due to the restrictions on refugees leaving the camps and the delivery of the program by the trusted organization BRAC. [...] We also illustrate these treatment effect estimates in Figure 2, where we show where the mean of the treatment group lies in the distribution of the control group in terms of SD units. [...] Are the mentally unhealthy catching up to the healthy? As an exploratory analysis, we examine whether the mentally-unhealthy mothers in the treatment group are catching up to the mentally-healthy mothers in the control group in terms of mental health and subjective well-being (Panel A1, Table A5).