Social Network Spillover Evaluation
RCTClinical Trial
Evaluating workplace interventions solely on directly treated individuals misses the secondary social ripple effects throughout an organization. Unmeasured peer diffusion can underestimate total program impacts on social cohesion and mental health.
Picture this
Throwing a stone into a pond creates expanding water ripples that reach surrounding lily pads; tracking the adjacent peers of treated workers reveals how positive habits and emotional support diffuse across an entire social community.
What the evidence says
Longitudinal tracking of 6,000 connected peers to quantify indirect intervention spillover effects and measure how mental health influences network formation.
- Who was studied
- 6,000 female garment workers socially connected to primary intervention participants in Bangalore, India.
- How
- Randomized controlled trial spillover evaluation tracking untargeted network contacts alongside 2,000 primary subjects.
What to do
Survey secondary workplace social contacts alongside primary program participants to quantify indirect intervention spillovers and broader social capital formation.
From the source
"In addition to the primary intervention, researchers will enroll 6,000 workers who are socially connected to study participants at the start of the intervention."
Alleviating_Loneliness_Among_Female_Migrant_Garment_Workers_in_India.pdf