Collaboration with World Bank
Impact of Social Recognition to improve performance
The Department of Social Services undertook an ambitious cash transfer modernization program aiming at the total digitization of services. The utmost challenge was to motivate the service-providing officials to adopt a new set of skills in using new IT technologies to deliver the services. To help them, I partnered with the World Bank to implement an RCT to see if social recognition or self-confidence can improve the performance of the officials. We investigated three channels- self-confidence, recognition by the boss, and recognition by the clients.
Impact of digital bank accounts and training on women empowerment
I partnered with the World Bank and a few commercial banks to check if offering digital and mobile money accounts and training on how to use them can affect the financial and decision-making power of women.
Gender and Adolescent
My Story
With ODI and George Washington University, I set up this 9-year long longitudinal study to understand the life trajectory of adolescent girls and boys to empowerment in the context of Bangladesh. As part of the project, a large-scale RCT will be implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Education to understand the efficacy of the school-based gendered intervention.
Evaluation of Activating Village Courts Program
I helped the UNDP Bangladesh office and two academics from Yale University to evaluate the Bangladesh Government's one of the most ambitious alternative dispute resolution reforms. Using both RCT and non-RCT methods, we estimated if village courts improve access to justice and increase informal economic exchanges that thrive under locally based contract enforcement.
READ
In this project, we evaluated a large intervention that was designed to enhance the reading skills of the students from Grade 1-3. We implemented a randomized controlled trial to see if the intervention with a community reading camp or solely school-based intervention can cost-effectively improve reading skills.