Gendered Misallocation of Labor: Evidence From Malawian Farmers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 989
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Agricultural Output
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial across districts in Malawi to evaluate the effect of providing free casual labor to pregnant farmers and female farmers on agricultural output, maternal and child health outcomes, child development, and social networks.
详细描述
This will be a cluster randomized control trial (RCT), where 75 of the districts in which One Acre Fund (1AF) currently operates within in Malawi will be randomly selected for inclusion in this study. Of these 75 districts, 38 will be randomly selected to implement the intervention. The intervention constitutes a voucher offered to all female famers who are currently enrolled in the 1AF program who are pregnant and/or have a child ages 1 years and below that entitles the recipient to a set number of days of labor from casual workers employed by local 1AF offices. The remaining 37 districts will serve as the control group.
Data will be collected at baseline during the planting season and endline at the conclusion of the harvest season. Data collected will pertain to agricultural output, individual and household demographics, obstetric history and outcomes, mental health, maternal health, child health and development, and social networks.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Pregnant at time of One Acre Fund program rollout
- •Mother to at least one child aged below 1 years of age
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Agricultural Output
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
A continuous measure of the value of the participant's agricultural yield, measured in Malawian Kwacha
Care seeking for child health
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
Two continuous variables measuring number of routine postnatal care and sick child visits
Labor inputs
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
A pair of recall questions repeated for each household member aged 10 years or older (including the respondent) that ask about the average number of days a week and the average number of hours per day the individual works on the respondent's farm, both measured continuously.
Reach of social networks
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
A social networks module that collects data on the extent and characteristics of the participant's social networks. Measured by the number of people reported in the participant's network, with a higher number indicating a larger network.
Postnatal care seeking
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
A continuous variable of number of postnatal care visits for those pregnancies that overlap with the index agricultural season
Antenatal care seeking
时间窗: Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation)
A continuous variable of number of antenatal care visits for those pregnancies that overlap with the index agricultural season
次要结局
- Maternal consumption medium term recall: protein intake(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Maternal hunger(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Maternal consumption short term recall: number of meals(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Maternal consumption medium term recall: protein intake(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Maternal mental health(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Child birth weight(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Barriers to perinatal care(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Maternal hunger(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Child consumption(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
- Willingness to hire causal labor(Assessed after harvest season (6 - 8 months after intervention initiation))
研究者
Nicholas Rahim
PhD student in the Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)