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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Women are assigned to one of seven arms (6 treatment, and 1 control). The 6 treatment arms vary in the job location (work-from-home or WfH, work-from-center or WfC) and payment level (low, medium, high). Baseline surveys are completed with all eligible women in the study. At the end of the survey, women are offered a job contract. The job contract includes details about the job task, payment details, and the location of the job. Around 20% of the women are also told that this job contract information will be informed to their husbands through another survey conducted by a male enumerator.
Women are then asked whether they accept the job contract. After the job contract offer, women do the job for about 50-100 hours (over ~1.5 months) before the Endline. At Endline, women are offered different job contracts, switching the location, and adding other variables of distance to center, among other job characteristics.
At endline, specifically we have 5 treatment arms - (1) work from home, (2) work from home but with a visit to a local center, (3) work from home but with no multitasking at home, (4) work from home but with a visit to a local center and wear a worker ID, and (5) work from local center to understand the mechanisms behind any differences between home and center job take up.
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After
Women are assigned to one of seven arms (6 treatment, and 1 control). The 6 treatment arms vary in the job location (work-from-home or WfH, work-from-center or WfC) and payment level (low, medium, high). Baseline surveys are completed with all eligible women in the study. At the end of the survey, women are offered a job contract. The job contract includes details about the job task, payment details, and the location of the job. Around 20% of the women are also told that this job contract information will be informed to their husbands through another survey conducted by a male enumerator.
Women are then asked whether they accept the job contract. After the job contract offer, women do the job for about 50-100 hours (over ~1.5 months) before the Endline. At Endline, women are offered different job contracts, switching the location, and adding other variables of distance to center, among other job characteristics.
At endline, specifically we have 5 treatment arms - (1) work from home, (2) work from home but with a visit to a local center, (3) work from home but with no multitasking at home, (4) work from home but with a visit to a local center and wear a worker ID, and (5) work from local center to understand the mechanisms behind any differences between home and center job take up. We also run an experiment with husbands, offering them the same job offers as their wives (low, medium, high wages from both locations - home and center) to elicit their preferences and job take-up for a short duration for comparison with wives' responses.
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