| Field | Before | After |
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| Field Last Published | Before September 11, 2024 11:53 AM | After November 14, 2024 02:47 PM |
| Field Primary Outcomes (End Points) | Before Firm inventory, firm operating hours, customer traffic, worker attendence, investment, risk perception, flood experience | After Choice of treatment technology, investment in flood control technology |
| Field Primary Outcomes (Explanation) | Before | After Investmetn in flood control technology will be measured by number of new or improved shelves, wooden pallets, or barriers added to the firm since July 2024 |
| Field Experimental Design (Public) | Before Neighborhoods of firms will be allocated to one of two treatment arms or the control. In the first treatment arm, the individual strategy treatment arm, firm owners will be given a choice of vouchers from a menu of equally valued adaptation strategies. Possible choices include vouchers for sandbags, concrete to build a barrier, or shelving units. I will finalize the list of strategies and the amounts of each item following a short piloting exercise with local firms. I will select two to three flood mitigation strategies where one strategy only helps an individual firm while at least one other strategy impacts firms in the local neighborhood. I give firms the choice of strategy because I anticipate sufficient heterogeneity across firms. Some firms may not have space for additional shelving units while other firms may not need or want any sort of barrier outside their store. The menu of options allows firms to choose the strategy that best fits their location and needs. In the other treatment arms, I will gather all firms in the neighborhood cluster, and they will decide as a group which vouchers they would like to receive. Each firm will still receive the same number of vouchers; however, the choice is at the neighborhood level. While some strategies benefit the firm individually (shelving units) other strategies (sandbags or barriers) may benefit or hurt firms across the group differently. The variation in choice at the individual or neighborhood level will allow me to identify the impact of local spillovers. | After Neighborhoods of firms will be allocated to one of two treatment arms or the control. In the first treatment arm, the individual strategy treatment arm, firm owners will be given a choice of vouchers for two bags of cement or two wooden pallets. I will finalize the list of strategies and the amounts of each item following a short piloting exercise with local firms. I selected two flood mitigation strategies where one strategy only helps an individual firm while at least one other strategy impacts firms in the local neighborhood. I give firms the choice of strategy because I anticipate sufficient heterogeneity across firms. Some firms may not have space for additional shelving units while other firms may not need or want any sort of barrier outside their store. The menu of options allows firms to choose the strategy that best fits their location and needs. In the other treatment arms, I will gather all firms in the neighborhood cluster, and they will decide as a group which vouchers they would like to receive. Each firm will still receive the same number of vouchers; however, the choice is at the neighborhood level. While some strategies benefit the firm individually (wooden pallets) other strategies (barriers) may benefit or hurt firms across the group differently. The variation in choice at the individual or neighborhood level will allow me to identify the impact of local spillovers. |
| Field Secondary Outcomes (End Points) | Before | After Flood experience during the 2024 rainy season, firm inventory and stockouts, firm operating hours, customer traffic, worker attendance, firm monthly revenue and profits. |
| Field | Before | After |
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| Field Document | Before |
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Seasonal_Flooding_Dakar_PAP_11142024.pdf
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