International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

Projects in Focus

@ Pepe Pont	Roadblocks to safe deliveries: Evaluating impact on maternal and child health in India The evaluation of the Thayi Bhagya project examines whether easing both demand and supply constraints improves maternal and child health. A background qualitative report produced to inform the study design and implementation highlights the demand constraints women face in accessing an institutional delivery, and consequently problems facing the implementation of such programmes. Research team: Manoj Mohanan from Duke University; Grant Miller from Stanford University; Gerard La Forgia from World Bank, SARHN, Kultar Singh and Swapnil Shekhar from Sambodhi Research & Communications PVT.LTD; Jyoti Tewari from DFID India, Anirudh Krishna from Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, Kripa Ananthpur from Madras Institute of Development Studies

@REAP, China	Health: China's battle against anemia REAP ran a randomised control trial in which students in 24 schools received one over-the-counter multivitamin with iron per day for five months. Evaluative tests revealed that anemia rates fell sharply and, interestingly, standardized test scores rose. Investigators: Linxiu Zhang from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Scott Rozelle from Stanford University and Yaojiang Shi from Northwest University, Xi’an; Shaanxi

@J-PAL Rajasthan, India	Democratic governance: Voters education in India This impact study will evaluate the effect of Pre-Election Voter Awareness Campaigns involving randomized control trials in the urban slums of Delhi and the villages of Rajasthan, India. The research team J-PAL and its NGO partners Satark Nagrik Sanghatan in Delhi and Prayatn in Rajasthan are using the innovative concept of ‘report cards’ to generate awareness on the performance of elected representatives. Investigators: Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra from India Development Foundation; Rohini Pande from Harvard University; Abhijit Banerjee from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Esther Duflo from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Clement Imbert from Paris School of Econo

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