NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
Faraz Usmani,
Marc Jeuland and
Subhrendu Pattanayak
No wp-2018-59, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we create a sample of observationally similar Indian villages that differ in their prior engagement with a local development NGO. In partnership with this NGO, we then stratify a randomized technology promotion intervention on this institutional variable.
Keywords: Field experiments; NGOs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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