Re-evaluating the early child stimulation programme in Bangladesh: evidence from the partial identification approach. Issue 4 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aizawa, Toshiaki
• Is Part Of: Journal of development effectiveness. Volume 12:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: Child Stimulation -- Partial identification -- RCT -- External validity -- Bangladesh; Economic development -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economic development; Economic history; Developing countries; Periodicals; 338.91724
• DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2020.1828999
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1943-9342

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study complements the previous evaluation study of the Early Child Stimulation programme conducted in Bangladesh. Despite a rigorously designed randomised control trial, the presence of non-compliers made it impossible to point-identify the average treatment effect (ATE) on targeted outcomes without additional strong identification assumptions. This study provides new evidence through the partial identification approach, which estimates the ATE bound with weak but credible assumptions. The results show that the ATE bounds include the local average treatment effects and we do not find strong evidence to suggest the ATE among compliers is greatly different from that among the entire population.