Table 3.
Eligible Within-Study Comparisons of Development Programs.
| Study | Intervention | Country | Outcome(s) | Benchmark | NRS replication | WSC type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buddelmeyer and Skoufias (2004) | Cash transfer (PROGRESA) | Mexico | Reported school attendance and child labor | Cluster-RCT | RDD | Tiebreaker/synthetic |
| Diaz and Handa (2006) | Cash transfer (PROGRESA) | Mexico | Reported food expenditure, school enrollment, child labor | Cluster-RCT | Cross-section regression, matching | Simultaneous |
| Handa and Maluccio (2010) | Cash transfer (RPS) | Nicaragua | Reported expenditure, childcare, preventive health care, child illness | Cluster-RCT | Matching | Simultaneous |
| McKenzie et al. (2010) | Immigration entitlement | Tonga | Reported income | RCT | Cross-section regression, panel data regression (DD), IV regression, matching | Simultaneous |
| Galiani and McEwan (2013) | Cash transfer (PRAF) | Honduras | Census reported school enrollment and child labor | Cluster-RCT | RDD | Tiebreaker |
| Barrera-Osorio et al. (2014) | Scholarship | Cambodia | Grade completion and math test score | Cluster-RCT | RDD | Tiebreaker/synthetic |
| Chaplin et al. (2017) | Subsidy | Tanzania | Reported energy use and cost | Cluster-RCT | Matching | Simultaneous |
| Galiani et al. (2017) | Cash transfer (PRAF) | Honduras | Census reported school enrollment and child labor | Cluster-RCT | GDD | Tiebreaker |
Note. PROGRESA = Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación; RPS = Red de Protección Social; RCT = ; RDD = regression discontinuity design; DD = double-differences; GDD = geographical discontinuity design; PRAF = Programa de Asignación Familiar.