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TV, female empowerment and demographic change in rural India

TV, female empowerment and demographic change in rural India

3ie Replication Paper 2

Vegard Iversen and Richard Palmer-Jones

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In this paper, Vegard Iversen and Richard Palmer-Jones re-examine the possible causal benefits of increased cable television access on women’s status. Robert Jensen’s and Emily Oster’s paper, The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in Rural India, tested this hypothesis that increased cable TV access is associated with improved women’s status in rural India. They found that the spread of cable television corresponded to changes in women’s status, including decreases in the acceptability of domestic violence, fertility, and son preference and increases in autonomy.

In the first 3ie-supported replication study, Iversen and Palmer-Jones posit that the underlying mechanisms are more complex than implied by the original study. Their analysis of Jensen’s and Oster’s study data reveals that variations in TV viewing habits, as well as education, influenced the outcomes of interest in these rural Indian communities. They also determine that cable television access increased female autonomy specifically for households that did not own televisions.

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Treatment as Prevention: A replication study of a universal test and treatment cluster-randomized trial in Zambia and South Africa

Treatment as Prevention: A replication study of a universal test and treatment cluster-randomized trial in Zambia and South Africa

Replication paper 3ie 2022  
The authors of this paper replicated a landmark study by Hayes and colleagues (2019) on the HPTN 071 (PoPART) trial, which examined if a universal test and treatment program, along with a combination prevention intervention, could reduce HIV incidence in Zambia and South Africa. 

Treatment as prevention: A replication study on a universal test and treat cluster-randomized trial in South Africa from 2012–2016

Treatment as prevention: A replication study on a universal test and treat cluster-randomized trial in South Africa from 2012–2016

Replication paper 3ie 2022  

Authors of this paper replicated a landmark study by Iwuji and colleagues (2018) who examined the use of treatment as prevention (TaSP) trials for HIV-positive individuals in rural South Africa.

Treatment as prevention: a replication study on early antiretroviral therapy initiation and HIV-1 transmission

Treatment as prevention: a replication study on early antiretroviral therapy initiation and HIV-1 transmission

Replication paper 3ie 2020  
Eric Djimeu and Eleanor G Dickens conduct a replication of the HPTN 052 study by Cohen and colleagues that evaluates the impact of early initiation of antiretroviral therapy on rates of sexual transmission of HIV-1.

Biometric Smartcards and payment disbursement: a replication study of a state capacity-building experiment in India

Biometric Smartcards and payment disbursement: a replication study of a state capacity-building experiment in India

Replication paper 3ie 2019  
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Social Security Pension are two of the largest employment programmes in Andhra Pradesh. Muralidharan and colleagues (2016) investigated the impacts of biometrically-authenticated payment infrastructure (Smartcards) on beneficiaries of the two employment programmes.

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Risk sharing and transaction costs: a replication study of evidence from Kenya’s mobile money revolution

Replication paper 3ie 2019  
This replication study starts with the twin strategies of push-button and pure replications of the original study. It then followed this up with various consistency and robustness checks, such as propensity score matching and the Tobit model specification.

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  • DOI : 10.23846/RPS0002

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