Baseline Work Heterogeneity
Labor force participation increases across public and private sectors were largest among women who had not previously worked for MGNREGS and whose husbands held conservative gender views.
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Educational Heterogeneity in Information Frictions
High-school educated jobseekers doubled their permanent employment rate from 5.8% to 11.6% (ITT = +5.76 percentage points, p < 0.05) and increased formal employment by 45% (+4.82 percentage points, p < 0.10), driven by an 8.7% reduction in reservation wages (p < 0.10); post-secondary jobseekers showed no statistically significant change in permanent employment (-2.6 percentage points, p > 0.10) or reservation wages (-3.5%, p > 0.10).
Gender-Differentiated Remittance Responsiveness
Captured 137,927 weekly observations while eliminating date overlaps and memory gaps across 30 follow-up weeks.
Hierarchical Bayesian Strata Targeting
The optimal targeted treatment policy produced an estimated 1.7 percentage point increase in 6-week employment over control (a 35% gain, 95% credible set [0.001, 0.034]), compared to a 0.5 percentage point gain for the optimal non-targeted policy.
Hierarchical Bayesian Treatment Effect Targeting
The optimal targeted policy yielded an estimated 1.7 percentage point increase in employment relative to control (a 35% gain), whereas the optimal non-targeted policy yielded only a 0.6 percentage point gain [21].
Honest Split-Sample ML Heterogeneity Inference
Identified statistically significant treatment effect divergence between the top and bottom predicted individual treatment effect (ITE) quintiles for social stigma (p = 0.009 in Exp 1, p = 0.022 in Exp 2) and professional stigma (p = 0.015 in Exp 1), uncovering hidden heterogeneity where average treatment effects were near zero.
Human Capital Moderation of Risk Hedging
Among literate household heads, insurance provision increased the likelihood of investing in risky cash crops by 15 percentage points (p < 0.05), whereas among illiterate household heads, the treatment effect was indistinguishable from zero [9, 11].
Low-Ability Foot-in-the-Door Effect
Candidates at the 25th percentile of baseline ability gained a 25 percentage point increase in post-intervention employment probability and earned $11.01 more per day [25]. In contrast, candidates at the 75th percentile experienced a 1.5 percentage point decrease in employment probability and earned only $2.20 more per day [25].
Prior Research Experience Return Magnification
Acquiring short-term work experience yielded a statistically significant positive wage interaction for candidates with prior research experience (interaction coefficient = 1.079, standard error = 0.618, p = 0.06), demonstrating magnified wage gains for research-experienced individuals.
Stigma-Induced Compositional Selection
Addressing social stigma shifted the applicant demographic index by 0.174 standard deviations toward higher socioeconomic status (p < 0.05). Professional stigma messaging increased the proportion of wealthy applicants by 62% relative to control (p < 0.01) and currently employed applicants by 28% (p < 0.05).
Selective Responsiveness of Unmotivated Workers to Sanctions
The interaction between accountability treatments and baseline reciprocity was consistently negative (e.g., Monetary Penalty x Baseline Reciprocity coefficient = -0.269, p = 0.022), demonstrating that accountability sanctions selectively increase prosocial performance among unmotivated workers who have higher baseline absenteeism.