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Trial Status
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in_development
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on_going
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Last Published
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April 07, 2022 03:03 PM
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June 30, 2022 07:35 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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The intervention consists of month-long internet-mediated gig jobs which can be done on a smartphone. Participants will complete tasks on an Android application developed by the Project Karya team at Microsoft Research. We will pay participants a piece rate of approximately Rs. 1 per task, which is the wage our implementing partners have previously used in similar contexts. These tasks include recording oneself speaking specific sentences in Bengali or Hindi.
At the end of the month-long job, we will provide information to women about nearby training and employment opportunities outside of the study. We will connect women to a selection of training and job options which vary in their location, hours, technology use, and conformity to gender norms, and then measure take up as a primary outcome. For example, one work-from-home option that we plan to connect participants to is phone-based marketing work, which involves calling people to attempt to sell them different products. We also plan to connect women to outside-the-home job options in gig work, such as through Urban Company, Uber, and Swiggy. This part of the intervention, in which we offer information about training and jobs, will be available to participants in all treatment and comparison groups.
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The intervention consists of month-long internet-mediated gig jobs which can be done on a smartphone. Participants complete speech-based tasks on an Android application developed by Karya Inc. We pay participants a piece rate of approximately Rs. 1 per task, which is the wage our implementing partners have previously used in similar contexts. These tasks include recording oneself speaking specific sentences in Bengali or Hindi, and the tasks range in difficulty level.
Participants are randomized into work arrangements which vary across three characteristics: (1) the ability to work from home, (2) the ability to choose one's work hours flexibly, and (3) the ability to multitask with childcare. After making job offers but before the work begins, we randomly select half of participants in the treatment groups with inflexible constraints to be upgraded to the most flexible work arrangement, which allows them to work from home, choose work hours, and multitask with childcare.
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Intervention Start Date
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May 25, 2022
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June 17, 2022
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Intervention End Date
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July 15, 2022
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September 17, 2022
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Our evaluation consists of an RCT in and around Kolkata, West Bengal with approximately 1,500-2,000 households. Participating households will be randomly assigned into job treatment groups and a control group. The smartphone-based jobs consist of contributing to a Bengali or Hindi dataset by speaking aloud provided sentences. The job treatment groups vary across three dimensions: 1) ability to choose work location, 2) ability to choose work hours, and 3) ability to multitask with childcare. First, we offer jobs to women and measure the difference in job acceptance for each job variation. Second, we return to a random subset of participants who were originally offered inflexible work arrangements, and we offer them the option to switch to the most flexible job. Third, we implement the month-long jobs. Lastly, at the end of the short-term job, we provide information about further training and work.
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Our evaluation consists of an RCT in and around Kolkata, West Bengal with approximately 1,500-2,000 households. Participating households will be randomly assigned into job treatment groups and a control group. The month-long, smartphone-based jobs consist of contributing to a Bengali or Hindi dataset by speaking aloud provided sentences.
The job treatment groups vary across three dimensions: 1) ability to choose work location, 2) ability to choose work hours, and 3) ability to multitask with childcare. First, we offer jobs to women and measure the difference in job acceptance for each job variation. Second, we return to a random subset of participants who were originally offered inflexible work arrangements, and we offer them the option to switch to the most flexible job. Third, we implement the month-long jobs. Lastly, at the end of the short-term job, we provide information about further training and work and measure the impacts of jobs on the households (e.g. women's interest in future work, time use, gender attitudes, and agency).
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Secondary Outcomes (End Points)
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1. Attributes of women who select into different work arrangements. We will measure whether women who opt into more or less flexible jobs differ along (i) baseline characteristics such as agency, gender attitudes, and household structure, (ii) on-the-job productivity, and (iii) persistence in the job throughout the month-long intervention.
2. On-the-job productivity, including comparisons across work arrangements.
3. Persistence in the job (i.e. to what extent women continue in the job throughout the intervention), including comparisons across work arrangements.
4. Children's aspirations and attitudes. We will compare the stated educational/career aspirations and gender attitudes at endline between children in treatment households vs control households.
5. Time use. We will try to understand how women change their schedules in order to accommodate work in the treatment group.
6. Spending. We will try to understand how households use the earnings that women make from the intervention.
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1. Attributes of women who select into different work arrangements. We will measure whether women who opt into more or less flexible jobs differ along (i) baseline characteristics such as agency, gender attitudes, and household structure, (ii) on-the-job productivity, and (iii) persistence in the job throughout the month-long intervention.
2. On-the-job productivity, including comparisons across work arrangements.
3. Persistence in the job (i.e. to what extent women continue in the job throughout the intervention), including comparisons across work arrangements.
4. Children's aspirations and attitudes. We will compare the stated educational/career aspirations and gender attitudes at endline between children in treatment households vs control households. We do not expect to be well-powered on this outcome.
5. Time use. We will try to understand how women change their schedules in order to accommodate work in the treatment group.
6. Spending. We will try to understand how households use the earnings that women make from the intervention.
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