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in situ | life, love and quasi experimental design
https://alyssaqed.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/in-situ
Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. I’m pleased to say that, after much hard work on the part of everyone involved, we finally launched our baseline survey on Monday. Since then, I’ve been able to accompany our enumerator teams on a few long days. Some of my fieldwork observations:. Two hired cars will arrive at 8 am to deliver supervisors and enumerators to a village for an early start to surveying. Villages are complex clusters. It is unc...
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notes from the field | life, love and quasi experimental design
https://alyssaqed.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/notes-from-the-field
Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. Notes from the field. So I’m like Simon Pegg, but not British, and not as funny. However, I’ve been able to go on a few village visits so far, and despite the heat I’ve really enjoyed them. It’s an especially valuable opportunity because we won’t be able to visit households when the actual survey is going on, so that our presence won’t bias the results. I’ve talked to several women; they wear well-worn lo...
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buy local | life, love and quasi experimental design
https://alyssaqed.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/buy-local
Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. In my first year as a Master’s student, I read many, many empirical econometric studies. Most of them looked something like this:. In case you are very, very curious (though I don’t know why you would be) the full paper is here. 8221; in English.). Or how they manage to haggle the price of a t-shirt reading “DAMN I’M GOOD” from 250 to 200 Rs. Or how, on arrival in Jagdishpur, they head to the Book Depot i...
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things that would probably never happen in the US (or, HEY YOU! GIVE ME THAT BABY) | life, love and quasi experimental design
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Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. Things that would probably never happen in the US (or, HEY YOU! GIVE ME THAT BABY). 2 Sitting with strange researcher to answer questions, woman calmly takes note as her two-year-old child wanders down the street and out of sight, knowing that eventually he will return safely on his own or someone else will bring him back. GIVE ME THAT BABY! 4 Academic research team arrives in town to meet with local coun...
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enumerating | life, love and quasi experimental design
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Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. In a previous post. We still haven’t entirely resolved that question, but for a number of reasons we’ve ended up with both male and female enumerators, which seems to be working out well. On the first day, there was time for a few games of telephone (in Hindi, which led to some delightful misunderstandings). Trainee enumerator Amita interviews a woman in a Muslim village on our first day of pre-testing.
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add splendour to your day | life, love and quasi experimental design
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Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. Add splendour to your day. Unfortunately I do not have my own picture but this one is fairly representative. Ram checked in periodically with the driver by mobile. Eventually he was informed that we would have to give the driver his pay and then find our own way back to Jagdishpur. We decided to get some coffee at Café Coffee Day (Indian equivalent of Starbucks) while we figured out our options. In short ...
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marriage season | life, love and quasi experimental design
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Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. A few weeks ago, Neelu, one of our enumerators, invited me, Jess and Dave to her wedding. Here she is:. The wedding took place in Neelu’s family’s village, in a different part of a block. Our car turned off the paved road before rocking down a dirt path towards our destination. It’s probably more accurate to say that the wedding had temporarily colonized the village, with tents set up throughout a...We ha...
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we are what we eat | life, love and quasi experimental design
https://alyssaqed.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/we-are-what-we-eat
Travels in the land of international development research. Life, love and quasi experimental design. We are what we eat. We are lucky here; the TERI guesthouse employs a full-time cook three meals a day, seven days a week. Bablu Ji is a shy nineteen-year-old who rolls out fresh dough for. Flatbreads) on newsprint every morning before cooking it on a flat round pan. With some sort of. Vegetable), but sometimes we have a. Semolina) based dish, as well. Lunch and dinner also consist of this, plus yellow.
