Getting rural workers into urban jobs: evidence from a training and placement program in India

Last registered on September 13, 2017

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Getting rural workers into urban jobs: evidence from a training and placement program in India
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0002387
Initial registration date
September 12, 2017

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 13, 2017, 12:31 PM EDT

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

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
University of Warwick Department of Economics

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
University of Warwick

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2017-10-01
End date
2018-09-30
Secondary IDs
Abstract
In 2014, as part of the “Skill India” agenda, the government set up an ambitious training program, called DDU-GKY, which targets young high-school dropouts living in poor rural areas. The effectiveness of training and placement programs is often limited by the scarcity of job opportunities. The Indian context is particularly interesting because job vacancies are supposed to abound and finding workers who will join when offered a job is difficult.
In collaboration with a private training provider and the government of Odisha, we will test two different interventions to provide information on the training and placement process to potential candidates, in order to maximise training completion and placement rates. First, we will send to randomly-selected villages well-trained mobilisers equipped with a portfolio of media to catch the attention and inform potential candidates (leaflets, videos...). Second, we will add to the previous intervention a “parents ambassador” scheme, whereby the parents of successful program participants will be trained to disseminate information about the DDU-GKY program in the village where they live. Ambassador parents (“mobilisers”) will be selected on a voluntary basis and trained in disseminating information about the program.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Imbert, Clément and Roland Rathelot. 2017. "Getting rural workers into urban jobs: evidence from a training and placement program in India." AEA RCT Registry. September 13. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.2387-1.0
Former Citation
Imbert, Clément and Roland Rathelot. 2017. "Getting rural workers into urban jobs: evidence from a training and placement program in India." AEA RCT Registry. September 13. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2387/history/21404
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
- Intensive mobilisation: Sending trained mobilisers in villages to inform potential candidates about the programme, using different methods and media (e.g. videos).
- Intensive mobilisation + Parents as ambassadors: Activating parents of candidates who were successfully placed to serve ambassador to find new trainees.
Intervention Start Date
2018-01-01
Intervention End Date
2018-06-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Outcomes: Number of trainees from a village; training completion, placement, retention in placement, work-related outcomes of these trainees.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Three treatment arms:
- Intensive mobilisation villages
- Intensive mobilisation + Parents ambassadors villages
- Control villages
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Computer-based, made by the PIs.
Randomization Unit
Unit of randomisation: Village
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
600 villages
Sample size: planned number of observations
The main outcomes are measured at the level of village.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
150 Intensive mobilisation villages
150 Intensive mobilisation + Parents ambassadors villages
300 control villages
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
IFMR Human Subjects Committee
IRB Approval Date
2017-09-10
IRB Approval Number
IRB00007107; FWA00014616; IORG0005894

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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