Government Service Provision - Pakistan

Last registered on June 23, 2014

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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title

Government Service Provision - Pakistan

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0000417

First published

June 23, 2014, 3:39 PM EDT

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

Locations

Country

Pakistan

Region

Primary Investigator

Name

Charles Sprenger

Affiliation

Stanford University

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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name

James Andreoni

PI Affiliation

UC San Diego

PI Name

Michael Callen

PI Affiliation

Harvard University

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Additional Trial Information

Status

On going

Start date

2014-06-23

End date

2014-08-30

Keywords

Governance

Additional Keywords

JEL code(s)

Secondary IDs

Abstract

The project focuses on government service provision in the key sector of health services. Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where polio remains an endemic disease. Government efforts to eradicate polio make use of government service workers, seconded to vaccination for limited drives of 2-3 days. Seconded workers are given vaccination material and a rudimentary map of their catchment area to cover. Daily wages are provided, but no explicit incentives are given for task completion. In principle, vaccinations are recorded on daily work sheets and via chalk markings on the door of each approached house. Some concern about task completion exists, but no detailed records on malfeasance are kept at the Ministry of Health. This project focuses on two dimensions of government service provision: malfeasance and the intertemporal organization of work. Subjects are randomized into various contract types.

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Andreoni, James, Michael Callen and Charles Sprenger. 2014. "Government Service Provision - Pakistan." AEA RCT Registry. June 23. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.417-1.0

Former Citation

Andreoni, James, Michael Callen and Charles Sprenger. 2014. "Government Service Provision - Pakistan." AEA RCT Registry. June 23. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/417/history/1941

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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

Embargoed at investigator's request.

Intervention Start Date

2014-06-23

Intervention End Date

2014-08-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

Embargoed at investigator's request.

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

See analysis plan.

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Embargoed at investigator's request.

Experimental Design Details

See analysis plan.

Randomization Method

Randomization completed with list of vaccinators in advance by computer in office.

Randomization Unit

Training session.

Was the treatment clustered?

Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

12 training sessions.

Sample size: planned number of observations

500 vaccinators.

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

50-100 in each treatment arm.

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

Treatment effects identify a behavioral parameter. Using values from Augenblck et al. (2014) a 0.25 standard deviation treatment effect would be recovered with 80% power with a sample size of around 250.

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