Gender-Differentiated Remittance Responsiveness
RCTClinical Trial
Rigid calendar-based weekly survey schedules lead to missing data or double-counting when participants complete surveys on irregular days, introducing recall errors into panel datasets.
Picture this
Instead of asking a participant to report transactions strictly for "Monday through Sunday" when they actually fill out the form on a Tuesday, the app dynamically asks for all activity "since your last survey submission," ensuring every day is covered without gaps or overlaps.
What the evidence says
Captured 137,927 weekly observations while eliminating date overlaps and memory gaps across 30 follow-up weeks.
- Who was studied
- 4,458 retained Filipino migrants completing 137,927 weekly mobile survey observations in the UAE.
- How
- Dynamic variable-window survey logic embedded in the Padalapp smartphone application adjusting the recall prompt to the exact timestamp of the respondent's previous submission.
What to do
Implement dynamic recall window prompts based on individual prior submission timestamps in mobile survey applications to prevent reporting gaps.
From the source
"Because participants could respond to the survey on different days, the recall period asked about was always the period since the last date on which the participant recorded a survey response (which accommodated potential non-response to the weekly survey)."
A Field Experiment among Filipino Migrant Workers in the UAE