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Field
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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Before
The surveys will cover existing as well as potential entrepreneurs. While the sample of 100 existing entrepreneurs will be drawn from the ongoing projects by UDP, the potential new entrepreneurs will be selected as part of the RCT. Although the interventions will include 150 entrepreneurs, we anticipate identifying around 500 potential entrepreneurs who will be covered at baseline and two follow-up surveys. Further details are provided in the section on participant selection. The survey will include information on their employment and income, financial assets, intra-household relationships and aspirations.
The study will cover a sample of about 5,000 mothers, of whom 3,200 are part of the RCT. Survey module will cover time usage, employment, income, mental health, and stress as well as perceptions and norms on paid childcare services. While the mothers participating in the RCT will be surveyed at baseline, midline and endline, we will conduct two rounds of survey (baseline and endline) for the non-experimental sample.
Only those children who are part of the RCT will be included in quantitative survey at baseline and at endline. Since the children from the non-experimental sample categories are unlikely to observe any change in their childcare services, they will not be surveyed for impact evaluation. Despite the initial sampling of 3,200 children, the survey will be tailored to focus exclusively on the age group of 0-5Yrs, without the broader inclusion criterion of up to 8 years of age. The reason for this plan to survey younger children (0-5Yrs) is to limit the number of survey tools to be used as well as to cover children where we can expect larger effects of the interventions. Tools such as the Global Scale for Early Childhood Development (GSED), and the International Development Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) will be used to collect data at baseline and endline.
A sub-sample of study participant children will be included for tracking neurodevelopment with technical assistance from the ICDDR,B. Utilizing the Hyperfine scanner already installed at ICDDR,B, we will conduct neuroimaging on a subset of 300 children, drawn from both the control and treatment groups, at both baseline and endline assessments. The sub-sample can be drawn based on age groups (instead of a random sample of 2-5 years old) for whom the changes are most likely to be captured in the study. Measures of brain structure, childcare quality and stimulation and school readiness skills will be assessed to help demonstrate the importance and impact of (quality) childcare. With the main objective of measuring the second stage effect on children as an alternative measure (in addition to observational data collection on child development), the selection of sample from the treatment group may oversample T3 (info + fees paid) to have larger difference in service uptake between control and treatment at the first stage. The D&T resources will also be used to complement the qualitative anthropological research to identify at-home childcare practices and interactions that affect neurodevelopment across all the groups. Researchers from IED and BIGD will also participate in training to build their skills in interpretation of neuroimaging and gain hands-on experience by working with the collaborators.
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After
The surveys will cover existing as well as potential entrepreneurs. While the sample of 100 existing entrepreneurs will be drawn from the ongoing projects by UDP, the potential new entrepreneurs will be selected as part of the RCT. Although the interventions will include 150 entrepreneurs, we anticipate identifying around 500 potential entrepreneurs who will be covered at baseline and two follow-up surveys. Further details are provided in the section on participant selection. The survey will include information on their employment and income, financial assets, intra-household relationships and aspirations.
The study will cover a sample of about 5,000 mothers, of whom 3,200 are part of the RCT. Survey module will cover time usage, employment, income, mental health, and stress as well as perceptions and norms on paid childcare services. While the mothers participating in the RCT will be surveyed at baseline, midline and endline, we will conduct two rounds of survey (baseline and endline) for the non-experimental sample.
Only those children who are part of the RCT will be included in quantitative survey at baseline and at endline. Since the children from the non-experimental sample categories are unlikely to observe any change in their childcare services, they will not be surveyed for impact evaluation. Despite the initial sampling of 3,200 children, the survey will be tailored to focus exclusively on the age group of 0-5Yrs, without the broader inclusion criterion of up to 8 years of age. The reason for this plan to survey younger children (0-5Yrs) is to limit the number of survey tools to be used as well as to cover children where we can expect larger effects of the interventions. Tools such as the Global Scale for Early Childhood Development (GSED), and the International Development Early Learning Assessment (IDELA), will be used to collect data at baseline and endline.
A sub-sample of study participant children will be included for tracking neurodevelopment with technical assistance from the ICDDR,B. Utilizing the Hyperfine scanner already installed at ICDDR,B, we will conduct neuroimaging on a subset of 300 children, drawn from both the control and treatment groups, at both baseline and endline assessments. The sub-sample can be drawn based on age groups (instead of a random sample of 2-5 years old) for whom the changes are most likely to be captured in the study. Measures of brain structure, childcare quality and stimulation and school readiness skills will be assessed to help demonstrate the importance and impact of (quality) childcare using Mullens Scale of Early Learning (MSEL).
With the main objective of measuring the second-stage effect on children as an alternative measure (in addition to observational data collection on child development), the selection of the sample from the treatment group may oversample T3 (info + fees paid) to have a larger difference in service uptake between control and treatment at the first stage. The D&T resources will also be used to complement the qualitative anthropological research to identify at-home childcare practices and interactions that affect neurodevelopment across all the groups. Researchers from IED and BIGD will also participate in training to build their skills in interpreting neuroimaging and gain hands-on experience by working with the collaborators.
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