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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
A randomly assigned group of panchayats (or local governing bodies) across twelve districts in the Bihar will be informed about flood alerts, once an alert was triggered by Google’s flood forecasting system. The treatment group includes panchayats where community-based volunteers will inform households about the alert via loudspeakers, door-to-door interactions, phone calls, and text messages; and, android smartphone users with location services enabled will receive an alert when an alert is triggered. The control group includes panchayats where android smartphone users with location services enabled will receive an alert when an alert is triggered but community-based volunteers will not be active.
Our sample includes 319 panchayats: 159 panchayats in the control group, 160 panchayats in the treatment group.
In November’21-January’22, we will administer a comprehensive survey across our sample to collect information on avoidance behavior, compensatory behavior, post-flood socioeconomic indicators (e.g., income, physical and mental morbidity, and mortality), and the diffusion and source of flood alerts. Our analysis will simply compare outcomes of interest between treatment and control panchayats.
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After
A randomly assigned group of panchayats (or local governing bodies) across twelve districts in the Bihar will be informed about flood alerts, once an alert was triggered by Google’s flood forecasting system. The treatment group includes panchayats where community-based volunteers will inform households about the alert via loudspeakers, door-to-door interactions, phone calls, and text messages; and, android smartphone users with location services enabled will receive an alert when an alert is triggered. The control group includes panchayats where android smartphone users with location services enabled will receive an alert when an alert is triggered but community-based volunteers will not be active.
Our sample includes 319 panchayats: 159 panchayats in the control group, 160 panchayats in the treatment group.
In November’22-January’23, we will administer a comprehensive survey across our sample to collect information on avoidance behavior, compensatory behavior, post-flood socioeconomic indicators (e.g., income, physical and mental morbidity, and mortality), and the diffusion and source of flood alerts. Our analysis will simply compare outcomes of interest between treatment and control panchayats.
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