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Field Before After
Last Published April 21, 2018 06:31 AM April 24, 2025 03:51 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date September 15, 2017
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 96
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 4032
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 35control communities, 61 treated communities
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files No
Data Collection Completion Date September 15, 2017
Is data available for public use? No
Keyword(s) Governance Governance
Building on Existing Work Yes
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Papers

Field Before After
Paper Abstract A prerequisite for institutional development is that citizens prefer the new insti- tutions to the old ones. In this paper, I advance our understanding of institutional development by investigating how citizens value inclusive institutional arrangements and how these values evolve. Using a novel lab-in-the-eld experiment, I provide the rst incentivized measure of the value that citizens place on taking collective decisions via a participatory process. Then, exploiting randomly assigned exposure to inclu- sive institutions through a Community-Driven Development (CDD) program, I provide causal evidence of whether experiencing such institutions changes citizens' evaluations of participatory governance. My results indicate that citizens prefer taking collective decisions by an inclusive process, and these positive evaluations are reinforced by the exposure to the CDD program. The overall eect is primarily driven by an increase in the value that citizens attach to inclusive decision-making practices per se, above and beyond instrumental considerations. Consistent with the previous literature, changes in citizens' values of participatory practices do not translate into changes in real-world participation behaviors or increased adoption of inclusive institutions. I discuss poten- tial reasons for these results, and their implications for interventions aimed at fostering institutional development.
Paper Citation Cocciolo, S. (2019). Experience of Inclusive Institutions and the Value of Participation: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. Working Paper.
Paper URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2s7p4xbckk8g3r/CDD%20and%20value%20of%20participation.pdf?dl=0
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Field Before After
Paper Abstract Local public good provision featuring community decision making may be funded through public finance or external donors, or require voluntary funding from the community. However, little is known about the effects of community contribution requirements on the distribution of access within the community and on take-up. I design and run a controlled experiment in rural Bangladesh where participants are asked to bargain among themselves on how to redistribute a common endowment, with and without co-funding requirements. By design, the bargaining exercise does not allow for freeriding and standard bargaining theory predicts full efficiency. I find that requiring contributions decreases efficiency by 12% and increases inequality by 30%. I consider three channels which may lead to such results: fairness preferences and individual bargaining power from wealth and status. I show that the increase in inequality is not caused by preferences indicating less redistribution under co-funding, nor by initial differences in the ability to contribute. The results suggest that requiring co-funding amplifies the differences in relative bargaining powers determined by a wider set of characteristics, including social status, thus increasing final inequality.
Paper Citation Ghisolfi, S. (2020). Contribution Requirements and Redistribution Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. Working Paper.
Paper URL https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5tl4z868ho3sjxmc9gujn/ContributionRedistribution_ghisolfi.pdf?rlkey=c2r8zqj8vtjnzvr9xwa0xsbc0&dl=0
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