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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
The study will include a treatment group and equally sized control group. The intervention will randomly select youth groups in Machakos, Kitui and Makueni counties of eastern Kenya. The randomly selected youth in each group will be paired with a local agro-dealer to sell post-harvest inputs such as hermetic bags and low-cost grain moisture meters to smallholder farmers and rural grain traders. During the post-harvest period following training, youth will sell inputs on a commission basis. The agro-dealer will provide the youth with the inputs and receive a portion of the commission from the revenue generated from the youth’s sales. The value of the inputs the youth will receive at baseline will be approximately 2500 shillings (US $25) in value. Youth will also put up 500 shillings (US $5) of their own money in collateral for the agro-dealer. The youth will also receive a one-time allotment of 1000 shillings (US $10) to cover initial travel costs to allow them to transport and sell the inputs at various locations such as markets or directly to smallholders. Since these Eastern Kenyan counties have two growing seasons in one year, treatment youth will be followed and surveyed after each post-harvest selling period. The first post-harvest period is in February-March 2021 while the second is July-August 2022. After the second post-harvest period (endline), youth in the control group will receive the same training, be paired with a local agro-dealer, value of inputs, and travel stipend. They will also be required to put up their own money in collateral.
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After
We made changes to this pre-analysis plan on the AEA Registry Website in Nov. 2022 before our final survey, but the changes were not saved on the website. We are updating this document ex-poste to be be transparent in the changes made.
The study will include a treatment group and equally sized control group. The intervention will randomly select youth groups in Machakos, Kitui and Makueni counties of eastern Kenya. The randomly selected youth in each group will be paired with a local agro-dealer to sell post-harvest inputs such as hermetic bags and low-cost grain moisture meters to smallholder farmers and rural grain traders. During the post-harvest period following training, youth will sell inputs on a commission basis. The agro-dealer will provide the youth with the inputs and receive a portion of the commission from the revenue generated from the youth’s sales. The value of the inputs the youth will receive at baseline will be approximately 2500 shillings (US $25) in value. Youth will also put up 500 shillings (US $5) of their own money in collateral for the agro-dealer. The youth will also receive a one-time allotment of 1000 shillings (US $10) to cover initial travel costs to allow them to transport and sell the inputs at various locations such as markets or directly to smallholders. Since these Eastern Kenyan counties have two growing seasons in one year, treatment youth will be followed and surveyed after each post-harvest selling period. The first post-harvest period is in February-March 2021 while the second is July-August 2022. After the second post-harvest period (endline), youth in the control group will receive the same training, be paired with a local agro-dealer, value of inputs, and travel stipend. They will also be required to put up their own money in collateral.
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