Entrepreneurial Mindset Development Program Curriculum in Andhra Pradesh - Second Endline

In partnership with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, EMDP was rolled out by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT-AP) and Udhyam for Grade 9 students during the 2022-23 Academic Year across 4,776 government schools and approximately 300,000 students. The program features a unique curriculum aimed at equipping Grade 9 students with entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Delivered throughout the academic year, it engaged students with real-life scenarios to prepare them for various professional environments,
including corporations, startups, or family businesses. The curriculum includes daily instructional classes and a substantial practical component, encompassing three smaller projects and one major project. These projects enable students to apply their classroom-
learned skills to solve real-world challenges within their communities

2026-04-06

2026-07-30

Career Preferences, Constraints, Beliefs, and Aspirations

The collected data will map to a structural framework linking human capital accumulation to occupational sorting and aggregate output, beyond the estimates of treatment effects using reduced-form estimations.

The underlying experimental design relies on a state-scale randomized controlled trial in Andhra Pradesh. Under this design, sub-districts (mandals) were allocated to one of two groups: a) Treatment Group: 630 mandals assigned to receive the EMDP; b) Control Group: 50 mandals serving as pure controls. The initial study sample tracked 75 randomly selected treatment mandals, comprising 748 treatment schools and 505 control schools. The first endline wave interviewed over 30,000 students. In our reduced-form estimations, we estimate intent-to-treat (ITT) regressions following the protocol outlined in AEARCTR-0012702}. The second wave of post-intervention data collection seeks to survey approximately half of the original students—an expected sample of 12,500—using a representative selection from the first sample. To select students, we create a ranked replacement list for each school. The sampling procedure requires a random sample drawn proportionately from each school. The steps taken are:
1- Each school's proportional share of the target sample of 12,500 students is calculated and rounded.
2- Students within each school are randomly selected to form the main sample.
3- Remaining students enter a replacement pool: a) The remaining students are stratified into male and female groups; b) Students within each gender group are randomly ranked; c) This results in a gender-specific replacement list for each school.
This protocol ensures that our sampling framework in the second wave is representative of the initial sample. We seek informed consent from parents and students prior to initiating the survey.

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We used STATA randomizing across mandals.

Mandals and the analysis level is students.

Yes

Treatment= 75 clusters; Control=50 clusters.

We plan to reach 12,500 students spread across the 125 clusters.

Treatment= 75 clusters; Control=50 clusters.