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Participation in data collection
Within my participation in COHESIVE-India,
I am involved in two projects in India: BEST and EMBRACE. Please,
visit COHESIVE-India
website for more information in these projects.
Grant
Miller (Stanford), Scott
Rozelle (Stanford), and Linxiu
Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science), and I are carrying out a
randomized trial that provides incentives to schools principals in
China to reduce anemia and improve test-scores. The experiment
involves 300 schools in the provices of Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Gansu.
The baseline has already been collected.
I am collaborating with Suzanne Duryea
(IDB), Gabriela
Vega (IDB), and Carolina Murgueito (Econometria Consultores)
in a randomized trial which studies the role of information
provision in preventing teenage pregancy in Medellin (Colombia)
As part of an Hewlett/ESRC grant that is funding research on the
relation between reproductive health and poverty, a group formed by
researchers from Chancellor
College in Malawi, UCL and
The Institute
for Fiscal Studies are collaborating with MaiMwana that is
running
a community effectiveness trial
of two interventions to improve essential maternal and newborn care
in
poor rural communities in the district of Mchinji (Malawi).
MaiMwana,
that is
being advised by the International
Perinatal
Unit
at
the Institute of Child Health of UCL,
is
carrying out a large scale data collection using PDAs. The
experience
has featured as a case study in the website of Techneos, the company
that supplied the software for the PDAs (Visit http://www.techneos.com/content/case-studies
and scroll down until you see the link to Mobile Research on Health and Poverty in Africa).
A presentation on the use of electronic equipment for data
collection
can be downloaded from here. The
data will be made publicly available soon through the UK Data
Archive!
I was part of a team formed by Econometría
Consultores, Sistemas
Especializados
de Información, and The Institute
for Fiscal Studies that designed the questionnaires of the
Colombian
welfare programs Familias en Acción, Empleo en Acción,
and Jóvenes en Acción. The data and questionnaires can
be
downloaded from the website of the Department of National Planning
of
the Colombian government. Click HERE
to go to the website.