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Last Published August 06, 2023 09:34 PM September 04, 2023 02:52 PM
Primary Outcomes (Explanation) We will sample from all farmers that cultivated rice in the past winter and summer season seasons in the gram panchayat using the administrative crop booking database. We will sample 2 farmers from the 90th percentile and above in land, 5 from those above 2 acres, and 1 from those below 2 acres to reflect the fact that larger farmers are more likely to use drum seeders. We will further sample a particular plot within a farmers lands in the event some of the land is cultivated by someone other than the owner we will interview the cultivator of the sampled plot. While this is not a fully representative sample of all cultivators it is the best possible sample that can be constructed using administrative data. For the laborer sample we will take a simple random sample from holders of active NREGA job cards in treatment and control villages.
Randomization Method Randomization was done on a computer using Stata 17. The randomization was stratified by district, historical use of drum seeders, and wages for transplanting labor. The individual randomization is stratified by any past direct seeding, extent of paddy cultivation, and gram panchayat. We will only randomize in GPs with more than 5 rentals in either the past winter or the current kharif season. Gram Panchayats with more than 20 rentals in either season will also be excluded. Randomization was done on a computer using Stata 17. The randomization was stratified by district, historical use of drum seeders, and wages for transplanting labor. The individual randomization is stratified by any past direct seeding, extent of paddy cultivation, and gram panchayat. We will only randomize in GPs with more than 5 rentals in either the past winter or the current kharif season. Gram Panchayats with more than 20 rentals in either season will also be excluded. GPs whose reported nursery planting time was after the date of the initial randomization were also included.
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