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Trial Status
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in_development
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After
completed
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Last Published
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Before
November 08, 2023 11:27 AM
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After
November 13, 2023 01:13 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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Before
The experiment consists of three treatment arms that randomly allocates 60 field enumerators using block-design across 120 villages: (i) enumerators in the control group villages receive a standard survey training with no tests (C), (ii) enumerators in the first treatment group solve three tests at the end of each day of the training and receive non-agentic feedbacks (T1), and (iii) enumerators in the second treatment group solve an identical tests as T1 but in addition they receive agentic feedbacks with an option for resubmission based on feedbacks (T2). The field experiment can examine the effect of frequent testing during survey trainings (T1 versus C) and variations in feedbacks on quality of survey data (T1 versus T2 and T2 versus C).
We randomly select 160 micro-finance borrowers out of a list of micro-finance borrowers who are female and have active loans, from a microfinance bank in rural Nigeria. We randomly allocate 100 to our control condition and 60 to our treatment condition. The treatment condition consists of a 6-week long financial literacy training. We conduct a baseline survey with the entire sample, before the randomization takes place. After the training, we conduct an endline survey with the entire sample.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
The randomization is done by a computer.
Randomization Unit
The unit of randomization is a village, stratified by enumerator type (binary values for cognitive score and experience)
Was the treatment clustered?
No
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After
The experiment consists of three treatment arms that randomly allocates 60 field enumerators using block-design across 120 villages: (i) enumerators in the control group villages receive a standard survey training with no tests (C), (ii) enumerators in the first treatment group solve three tests at the end of each day of the training and receive non-agentic feedbacks (T1), and (iii) enumerators in the second treatment group solve an identical tests as T1 but in addition they receive agentic feedbacks with an option for resubmission based on feedbacks (T2). The field experiment can examine the effect of frequent testing during survey trainings (T1 versus C) and variations in feedbacks on quality of survey data (T1 versus T2 and T2 versus C).
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Before
We have two key outcome variables, which are indexes for:
Psychological well-being;
Financial well-being.
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After
The primary outcomes include: (i) number of valid skips, (ii) missing values, (iii) number of flags, and (iv) distribution of key survey variables such as weight, height, and psychological well-being
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