The NGO GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention; GiveDirectly provides large
, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which they
randomly assigned to treatment or control status. Within treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies
assign half of the villages in an area targeted by the NGO GiveDirectly to an unconditional cash
The NGO GiveDirectly provides large, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya
. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which they are willing to work, and in order to facilitate
treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies all households that meet their eligibility
1,000 made in a series of three payments. GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention. The cash
, GiveDirectly enrolls and distributes cash transfers to households that meet its eligibility criteria.
non-beneficiaries. The NGO GiveDirectly provides large cash transfers to rural households in Kenya
The NGO GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention; GiveDirectly provides large
, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which they
randomly assigned to treatment or control status. Within treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies
treatment or control status. In treatment villages, GiveDirectly enrolls and distributes cash
Government of Liberia (GoL), the World Bank, and the NGO GiveDirectly to conduct a randomized
GiveDirectly. Beneficiary households will receive a series of 6 cash transfers, each valued at roughly US
Ministry of Gender, Families and Social Protection) and implemented by GiveDirectly. Households
households headed by married or cohabiting partners. The session will be facilitated by a GiveDirectly
settings, at minimal marginal cost. (For example, the main modification GiveDirectly needs to make to
TP communities will be eligible for transfers. GiveDirectly will be responsible for identifying
all 2,500 enrolled women. Since GiveDirectly offers phones to households when needed, we expect
, GiveDirectly, which provides unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya, will be
transfers, where GiveDirectly will vary the structure and schedule of transfer payments, as well as
from GiveDirectly. The structure and timing of these transfers, as well as the information provided
arm, including the cash transfer amount from GiveDirectly. Some components of the GiveDirectly
a household grant program implemented by GiveDirectly. These two treatments are compared to a
programs across the world. GiveDirectly has pioneered the use of household grants, an
intervention), and 61 were assigned to GiveDirectly household grants in a range around the anticipated
assigned to the large GiveDirectly transfer intended to maximize cost effectiveness of cash. The
IDinsight, GiveDirectly and Movva are partnering to rigorously evaluate a Movva SMS-based
GiveDirectly recipients in Lilongwe Rural. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the SMS
Evaluation of Parental Engagement SMS Intervention on GiveDirectly beneficiaries in Lilongwe Rural, Malawi
life. IDinsight, GiveDirectly and Movva are partnering to rigorously evaluate a Movva SMS-based
GiveDirectly recipients in Lilongwe Rural. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the
) across ~2600 GiveDirectly beneficiary households with children of school-going age. The RCT will
Haushofer and Shapiro's (2013) evaluation of the GiveDirectly unconditional cash transfers program
by GiveDirectly (the cash transfers are implemented over mobile money) but the study will be
uniformly across the relevant treatment villages. However, GiveDirectly will also implement two different
receive each nudge. The control villages will not receive any nudges. GiveDirectly will enrol
GiveDirectly is began in November 2017 and is expected to be completed in April 2018.
implemented by the NGO GiveDirectly, and (2) a market access intervention which reduces travel costs for
There are two interventions. First, the NGO GiveDirectly is providing cash transfers to households
. Finally, in Malawi, GiveDirectly randomized whether the male or female head of the household