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program_evaluation
4 findings
DevelopmentCost-Effectiveness of Market Incentive Information vs Cash TransfersThe recruiting intervention cost $12 per target individual and reduced early marriage/fertility by 5.1–5.7 percentage points with a 5.0 percentage point gain in schooling, whereas unconditional cash transfers in Malawi cost $100+ per household to reduce marriage/fertility by 6.7–7.9 percentage points with no statistically significant schooling gain.RCTEconomics (general)General Equilibrium Program Evaluation Gap in Scaled InterventionsMarketing insurance exclusively to cultivators reduces drought wages for landless laborers by 0.63 log points at the 30th percentile of rainfall, demonstrating that partial-equilibrium evaluations miss severe welfare losses among non-treated groups.RCTCrime & justiceMedium-Term Criminal Justice Impact Fade-OutPost-program arrest and conviction effects up to five years show no statistically significant impacts for either group. Among at-risk youth, felony arrest reductions show a persistent directional decrease of roughly 10% (-2.60 percentage points at 1 year, -4.51 at 3 years [p < 0.10], -2.81 at 5 years), while low-risk youth yield precisely estimated zeroes (+0.175 percentage points at 5 years, p > 0.10).RCTEconomics (general)Non-Applicant Selection Bias in Active Labor Market EvaluationsControl application rate was 43% in Experiment 1 and job fair attendance was 5.9% in Experiment 2, establishing that recruitment messaging alters who enters the sample pool before program training impact evaluation occurs.RCT