AEA RCT Registry

The MCC-CDD Philippines study is a rigorous impact evaluation of a large-scale community-driven development (CDD) program, Kalahi-CIDSS, implemented by the Government of the Philippines. The evaluation will measure the social capital, governance and socio-economic effects of the program. In order to understand the program’s impacts, the study has randomly assigned 198 eligible municipalities into treatment and control groups. This randomization involved pairing comparable municipalities (based on their province, poverty levels and population densities) and holding public lottery drawings to allocate one of the municipalities in each pair to the treatment group that would be eligible to participate in the program. The study will measure the program's impacts through surveys of households and community leaders in a random sample of villages from the 198 randomly selected municipalities participating in the study (one village per municipality).

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Beatty, Amanda et al. 2018. "MCC-CDD Philippines." AEA RCT Registry. January 24. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.171-9.0.

Former Citation

Beatty, Amanda et al. 2018. "MCC-CDD Philippines." AEA RCT Registry. January 24. http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/171/history/25232.

Sponsors & Partners

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

Intervention Start Date

2012-06-01

Intervention End Date

2015-12-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

Consumption, labor force participation, community participation, trust, corruption

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

This study consists of 198 randomly selected municipalities. The randomization involved pairing comparable municipalities (based on their province, poverty levels and population densities) and holding public lottery drawings to allocate one of the municipalities in each pair to the treatment group that would be eligible to participate in the program. The study will measure the program's impacts through surveys of households and community leaders in a random sample of villages from the 198 randomly selected municipalities participating in the study (one village per municipality).

Experimental Design Details

Randomization Method

Public lottery

Randomization Unit

Municipality

Was the treatment clustered?

Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

198 municipalities

Sample size: planned number of observations

198 municipalities with 198 surveyed villages (1 randomly selected per municipality) and 5,940 surveyed households (30 randomly selected per village)