Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20
Outputs
Target Audience:I have a policy brief in distribution and a scholarly article in development that both target donors, implementing organizations, and regulators who deal with policy directed at seasonal migrants. Both works highlight a fundamental challenge in reaching the intended population with a policy, develop tools to quantify the potential magnitude of the problem, and suggest a methodology to statistically uncover when targeting has been unsuccessful. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results have been written up as a policy brief and are currently being written into a more comprehensive article for journal submission. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Over the next reporting period, I will (1) formally write up my model and statistical test of policy targeting for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, and (2) conduct a supplementary study comparing how the determinants of labor supply elasticity differ between immigrants and native-born American workers in the agricultural sector using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Government of Mexico.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
I worked to quantify extent to which a migration policy reached its intended beneficiaries when the target population is not readily identifiable. I develop statistical tools to test the extent to which a policy targeting is successful, and how much leakage there is from unintended beneficiaries receiving program benefits.
Publications
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Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19
Outputs
Target Audience:I wrote a policy brief intended for NGOs and other charitable organizations that aim to implement policies targeted at the poor at large scale highlighting a potential pitfall common to many types of aid. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results on targeting are awaiting publication through the International Growth Center. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?I plan to evaluate newly generated data from Bangladesh and use the findings to design a study with farm connections in central California.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
I evaluated a migration policy in Bangladesh for a comparative study, which revealed potential issues in program implementation that must be addressed moving forward, and conducted scoping visits with agricultural producers that hire mobile labor in central California.
Publications
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Other
Status:
Awaiting Publication
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Bryan, Gharad, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Reimao, Ashish Shenoy. 2019. "Ups and Downs in the Path to Scale: Lessons Learned from a Scale-up of a Seasonal Migration RCT in Bangladesh," IGC PolicyBrief 89441
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Progress 10/02/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?In the next period, we will analyze data from the experiment in Bangladesh and develop a model of spatial misallocation in the labor market. Bangladeshi data will be used to validate and calibrate the model, separating out selection and treatment effects in observed misallocation.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This is a comparative project contarsting seasonal migration in California to that observed in South Asia. During the reporting period, we implemented and collected data on an experiment to promote seasonal migration in Bangladesh. Data from the experiment will be used to generate a model of spatial labor allocation and aggregate productivity. Once the model has been validated and calibrated using experimental data in Bangladesh, it will be applied to the California labor market.
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