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Intervention (Public)
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Workshop: The Foundational Training for Aspiring Young Politicians workshop will be held in Sorsogon City, the namesake capital of the Province of Sorsogon. It will be an all-expense-paid 3-day workshop. The workshop will be held in 4 batches. In 2 of these batches, the workshop will have a conditional incentive, while in the other 2 batches the workshop will have an unconditional incentive.
The workshop will be conducted by a hired consultant, Alvin Samson. The PI will also be present at all workshops to oversee the whole event. Alvin Samson will be assisted by the study team members that will serve as workshop facilitators. Subjects selected to attend the workshop will be asked to bring along with them signed assent to participate in the workshop and the parent's permission letter to participate in the workshop with their parent's signature. To ensure that the workshop runs smoothly and safely, we will ask the subject and the parent to read and agree to the house rules of the workshop.
Workshop Content: The workshop is entitled "LEAD2SERVE SUMMIT: Foundational Training for Aspiring Young Politicians," which I am developing in close consultation with Alvin Samson, the main workshop facilitator. The Lead2Serve Summit provides aspiring young leaders (ages 15 to 17) a shared platform to interact with each other, to be grounded on leadership principles that found application both in the corporate and public sectors, and to evolve a plan of action that they can readily implement and deploy in their immediate community in the context of their prospective roles as elected youth council members.
The workshop is a combination of plenary sessions, individual activity and small group discussions, and structured learning exercises. (Please see attached workshop framework document in Docs & Materials tab). Workshop outputs are in the form of worksheets to be accomplished by participants in every individual activity and small group discussion.
Scoring: Participants will receive scores for their participation in each of the plenary sessions and for each of the worksheets that they accomplish and submit.
Scoring is simple. A participant will either receive a score of 1, 2, or 3 (3 being the highest score) for each of the following: Participation in Plenary 1, Participation in Plenary 2, Participation in Plenary 3, Worksheet 1, Worksheet 2, Worksheet 3, Worksheet 4
Participation in plenary sessions will be scored by the participant's Small Group Facilitator. Scores obtained in the three plenary sessions will then be averaged out. This average score from participation will carry a weight of 20% of the overall score. Worksheets will be scored anonymously. Every time worksheets are submitted, they will be randomly redistributed equally among the Small Group Facilitators. Worksheets will be redistributed for scoring twice, so that each worksheet will receive two scores from two different, randomly assigned Small Group Facilitators. The two scores will be averaged out.
Average score for worksheet 1 will carry a weight of 15% of the overall score.
Average score for worksheet 2 will carry a weight of 15% of the overall score.
Average score for worksheet 3 will carry a weight of 25% of the overall score.
Average score for worksheet 4 will carry a weight of 25% of the overall score.
Hence each participant will receive an overall score that would range between 1 and 3. (Please see attached workshop framework document in Docs & Materials tab).
Incentives: The workshop content will be the same across the 4 batches. This is because maintaining symmetry across the treatment groups is crucial for the science of the study. The only difference between workshops with conditional incentive and workshops with unconditional incentive is as follows:
In workshops with conditional incentive (Group B), participant output from and performance in the different workshop sessions will be assigned scores, although participants will not know during the workshop that performance is actually being monitored and scored to prevent Hawthorne effects (i.e., reactivity of respondents to knowing that they are being scored). A predetermined overall cutoff score will be set before any of the workshops. Participants that make the cutoff score will be
given an incentive at the end of the workshop during the closing ceremony.
The incentive is a certificate of merit, and 5 pieces of campaign posters that the Angara Centre will donate to the respondent if he/she subsequently files for a certificate of candidacy. In workshops with unconditional incentive (Group C), participant output from and performance in the different workshop sessions will also be assigned scores, although participants will not know during the workshop that performance is actually being monitored and scored. However, these scores will have no bearing, since at the end of the workshop during the closing ceremony, each and all participants will be given the same incentive as described in the preceding paragraph. That is, everyone will receive a certificate of merit and--should they choose to subsequently file an official certificate of candidacy--5 pieces of campaign posters each from the Angara Centre. Hence, the two types of workshops are symmetric in all ways but one. The difference between the two sets of workshops is in the manner by which the incentive is earned by the participants. Whereas in Group B, earning the incentive is conditional on making the score cutoff, in Group C the incentive is unconditional and awarded to everyone in the group.
At the end of every workshop, all respondents receiving the incentive will be awarded the certificate of merit. They will also be asked to inform the study team by text message or email if they subsequently decide to file their official certificate of candidacies so that the study team can prepare the campaign posters to be donated to them in time for the campaign period. Respondents will also be informed at the end of every workshop that to verify their candidacy, the study team will collect copies of COCs, which is publicly available from COMELEC.
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Workshop: The Foundational Training for Aspiring Young Politicians workshop will be held in Sorsogon City, the namesake capital of the Province of Sorsogon. It will be an all-expense-paid 3-day workshop. The workshop will be held in 4 batches. In 2 of these batches, the workshop will have a conditional incentive, while in the other 2 batches the workshop will have an unconditional incentive.
The workshop will be conducted by a hired consultant, Alvin Samson. The PI will also be present at all workshops to oversee the whole event. Alvin Samson will be assisted by the study team members that will serve as workshop facilitators. Subjects selected to attend the workshop will be asked to bring along with them signed assent to participate in the workshop and the parent's permission letter to participate in the workshop with their parent's signature. To ensure that the workshop runs smoothly and safely, we will ask the subject and the parent to read and agree to the house rules of the workshop.
Workshop Content: The workshop is entitled "LEAD2SERVE SUMMIT: Foundational Training for Aspiring Young Politicians," which I am developing in close consultation with Alvin Samson, the main workshop facilitator. The Lead2Serve Summit provides aspiring young leaders (ages 15 to 17) a shared platform to interact with each other, to be grounded on leadership principles that found application both in the corporate and public sectors, and to evolve a plan of action that they can readily implement and deploy in their immediate community in the context of their prospective roles as elected youth council members.
The workshop is a combination of plenary sessions, individual activity and small group discussions, and structured learning exercises. (Please see attached workshop framework document in Docs & Materials tab). Workshop outputs are in the form of worksheets to be accomplished by participants in every individual activity and small group discussion.
Scoring: Participants will receive scores for their participation in each of the plenary sessions and for each of the worksheets that they accomplish and submit.
Scoring is simple. A participant will either receive a score of 1, 2, or 3 (3 being the highest score) for each of the following: Participation in Plenary 1, Participation in Plenary 2, Participation in Plenary 3, Worksheet 1, Worksheet 2, Worksheet 3, Worksheet 4
Participation in plenary sessions will be scored by the participant's Small Group Facilitator. Scores obtained in the three plenary sessions will then be averaged out. This average score from participation will carry a weight of 20% of the overall score. Worksheets will be scored anonymously. Every time worksheets are submitted, they will be randomly redistributed equally among the Small Group Facilitators. Worksheets will be redistributed for scoring twice, so that each worksheet will receive two scores from two different, randomly assigned Small Group Facilitators. The two scores will be averaged out.
Average score for worksheet 1 will carry a weight of 20% of the overall score.
Average score for worksheet 2 will carry a weight of 20% of the overall score.
Average score for worksheet 3 will carry a weight of 40% of the overall score.
Hence each participant will receive an overall score that would range between 1 and 3. (Please see attached workshop framework document in Docs & Materials tab).
Incentives: The workshop content will be the same across the 4 batches. This is because maintaining symmetry across the treatment groups is crucial for the science of the study. The only difference between workshops with conditional incentive and workshops with unconditional incentive is as follows:
In workshops with conditional incentive (Group B), participant output from and performance in the different workshop sessions will be assigned scores, although participants will not know during the workshop that performance is actually being monitored and scored to prevent Hawthorne effects (i.e., reactivity of respondents to knowing that they are being scored). A predetermined overall cutoff score will be set before any of the workshops. Participants that make the cutoff score will be
given an incentive at the end of the workshop during the closing ceremony.
The incentive is a certificate of merit, and 5 pieces of campaign posters that the Angara Centre will donate to the respondent if he/she subsequently files for a certificate of candidacy. In workshops with unconditional incentive (Group C), participant output from and performance in the different workshop sessions will also be assigned scores, although participants will not know during the workshop that performance is actually being monitored and scored. However, these scores will have no bearing, since at the end of the workshop during the closing ceremony, each and all participants will be given the same incentive as described in the preceding paragraph. That is, everyone will receive a certificate of merit and--should they choose to subsequently file an official certificate of candidacy--5 pieces of campaign posters each from the Angara Centre. Hence, the two types of workshops are symmetric in all ways but one. The difference between the two sets of workshops is in the manner by which the incentive is earned by the participants. Whereas in Group B, earning the incentive is conditional on making the score cutoff, in Group C the incentive is unconditional and awarded to everyone in the group.
At the end of every workshop, all respondents receiving the incentive will be awarded the certificate of merit. They will also be asked to inform the study team by text message or email if they subsequently decide to file their official certificate of candidacies so that the study team can prepare the campaign posters to be donated to them in time for the campaign period. Respondents will also be informed at the end of every workshop that to verify their candidacy, the study team will collect copies of COCs, which is publicly available from COMELEC.
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Before
The main outcomes of interest are: (1) subjects' subsequent decision to run or not run for office, (2) conditional on filing an official certificate of candidacy, their vote-share margin of victory, (3) a binary variable for winning the elective seat, and (4) conditional on winning an elective seat, subsequent performance in office measured in several ways including session attendance, legislations passed, projects delivered, funds raised, among others.
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The main outcomes of interest are: (1) subjects' subsequent decision to run or not run for office, (2) conditional on filing an official certificate of candidacy, their vote-share margin of victory, (3) a binary variable for winning the elective seat, and (4) conditional on winning an elective seat, subsequent performance in office measured in several ways including session attendance, legislations passed, projects delivered, funds raised, among others.
EDIT 08/05/14:
In October 2013, in the middle of the treatment interventions, Pres.Benigno Aquino III signed the law that postpones the SK ( Youth Council) Elections from October 28, 2013 to a date between October 28, 2014 February 28, 2015 (please see supporting document file, "Law Postponing SK Elections.pdf") Along with this law is the Implementing Rules and Regulations (please see supporting document file, "Implementing Rules of RA10632.pdf") that details the creation of a Task Force on Youth Development in the interim, when the SK offices are held vacant.
These changes imply that I cannot measure the original outcome of interest until after the new scheduled election date. In the interim (Agust 2014), I will conduct a follow-up survey that will measure the following:
(1) On a scale of 0-10 (10 being most likely), respondent's likelihood of running for youth council post
(2) On a scale of 0-10 (10 being most interested), respondent's interest in joining the Task Force on Youth Development
(3) An indicator variable for whether they got nominated to be part of the Task Force on Youth Development
(4) An indicator variable for whether they actually got designated as member of the Task Force on Youth Development.
And other measures that get at their political participation and interest in public service since they were exposed to the treatment interventions.
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