Signed, sealed, delivered: Digital receipts in the Ugandan dairy chain

Last registered on September 12, 2024
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Signed, sealed, delivered: Digital receipts in the Ugandan dairy chain
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0014087
Initial registration date
September 03, 2024

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
September 12, 2024, 5:40 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

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Primary Investigator

Name
Pedro Felipe Magana Saenz
Affiliation
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
David Henning
PI Affiliation
University of California - Los Angeles
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2024-08-12
End date
2025-10-31
Keywords
Agriculture, Behavior, Firms & Productivity, Other
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JEL code(s)
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Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Information frictions between actors along agricultural value chains can lead to market inefficiencies negatively affecting farmers' well-being. In the Ugandan dairy sector, farmers rely on transporters to sell their daily milk production to the local cooperative, with minimal visibility of the volumes delivered and recorded at the cooperative. Our goal is to study how farmers and transporters adjust their behavior when the informational advantages of transporters are eliminated through the introduction of digital receipts, which provide farmers with a daily breakdown of the milk volumes delivered.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Henning, David and Pedro Felipe Magana Saenz. 2024. "Signed, sealed, delivered: Digital receipts in the Ugandan dairy chain." AEA RCT Registry. September 12. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.14087-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2024-09-04
Intervention End Date
2024-12-20

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Milk deliveries, milk deliveries adjustment, milk quality, and changes in transporters (per farmer).
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Transporters' delivery prices, transporters' routes, transporters' service provision to farmers, membership/supplier base of cooperatives, and spillovers of the treatment.
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Farmers will be randomly assigned to receive the digital receipts (across villages). Additionally, we will randomly select one village to be pure control group.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer.
Randomization Unit
Individual with a pure control group randomized at the village level.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
791 famers
Sample size: planned number of observations
791 famers
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
25 farmers in pure control in one village (village level), 388 farmers in control, and 378 farmers in treatment.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Empowering farmers through information: Evidence from Relational Contracts in the Ugandan Dairy Chain
IRB Approval Date
2023-12-28
IRB Approval Number
2023-1672
Analysis Plan