Does information improve service delivery? A randomized trial in education in India
Priyanka Pandey, 2023 · PLOS ONE
A community-level information campaign explaining school oversight responsibilities increased the share of council members attending meetings by 4 percentage points in Uttar Pradesh.
Estimativa · Share of school council members attending meetings, proportion (0-1)
0,0400 [0,0200; 0,0600]
change in proportion (0-1)
p < 0.01
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster RCT across 610 gram panchayats, difference-in-differences specification
- População
- School council members in public primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, India, 2006–2009
- Amostra
- 553 · School council observation units (village clusters / gram panchayats)
Onde está o número
Table 4, row 'Share attended meeting', column 'Treatment-control (95% CI)' under UP
Share attended meeting | 0.04*** (.02 to .06)
Contexto
What changed: Communities received 11 to 14 public meetings disseminating state-mandated roles, entitlements, and assessment booklets over 2.5 years. Comparison: Control villages received no campaign. Limits: Gains in council participation were concentrated among higher-caste members and committee leaders, with negligible impacts in Karnataka where baseline capacity was higher.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInformação e persuasão
- TipoCampanha de informação
- MecanismoMonitoramento comunitário e auditorias
- ResultadoParticipação social nas decisões
- EixoVoz política
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Lugares do estudo
- Karnataka · Estado ou região · IN
- Madhya Pradesh · Estado ou região · IN
- Uttar Pradesh · Estado ou região · IN
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23