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Field Before After
Data Collection Complete No Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 17 firms
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 17 firms
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 6 control firms, 11 treatment firms
Public Data URL https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/int/search/dataset/0048381/India---Replication-Files-for--Do-Management-Interventions-Last--Evidence-from-India--2017
Program Files No Yes
Program Files URL https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/int/search/dataset/0048381/India---Replication-Files-for--Do-Management-Interventions-Last--Evidence-from-India--2017
Data Collection Completion Date January 31, 2017
Is data available for public use? No Yes
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Papers

Field Before After
Paper Abstract We revisited Indian weaving firms nine years after a randomized experiment that changed their management practices. While about half of the practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in practices between the treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Few practices had spread across the firms in the study, but many had spread within firms. Managerial turnover and the lack of director time were two of the most cited reasons for the drop in management practices, highlighting the importance of key employees
Paper Citation Bloom, Nicholas, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, and John Roberts. 2020. "Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (2): 198-219
Paper URL https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180369
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