Basic Information
Funding
Timeline
Participants
Design and Implementation

Basic Information

Country

India

Region

Madhya Pradesh

Governing level

NGO

Funding

Budget (local currency)

₹55.00 million

Budget (USD 2022)

$1.32 million

Budget currency

INR

Funding type

Private

Funding description

UNICEF India (main funder) and ING Bank

Timeline

Project start date

01/10/2010

Project start year

2010

Final project release date

01/01/2014

Length of project (days)

1188

Project length description

Preparatory work was already carried out prior to October 2010 by SEWA, but the research team designing the experiment started then. The final report was published in January 2014.

Experiment start date

01/06/2011

Experiment start year

2011

Experiment end date

31/01/2013

Experiment end year

2013

Number of start dates

2

Length of experiment (days)

610

Participants

Number of treatment groups

2

Sample size (intervention)

6093

Sample notes

1065 households in intervention and 1193 households in control group

Unit of analysis

Individuals

Control group?

Yes

Control group sample size

6721

Control group description

12 villages with similar distance to roads, schools, medical facilities and shops selected as control villages; a control tribal village with similar characteristics was selected for that part of the experiment

Target group description

Every individual in 8 villages of roughly 100 households size and roughly equidistant from an urban centre, Indore; and one tribal village

Gender target

No

Income target

No

Age target (outside working age)

No

Family target

No

Labour market status target

No

Disability target

No

Occupation target

No

Industry target

No

Design and Implementation

Saturation

Saturation

Evaluation

Internal

Conditionality

Only unconditional treatments

Taper rates

No tapers

Alternative interventions

None