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The problem
Intervention: Agricultural mechanisation, specifically farm household use of machinery such as tractors
Who it was tested with: Farm households and children aged 5-14 in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, India, Nepal, and Vietnam.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Available studies have put forward opposing hypotheses, but rigorous empirical evidence is scant. The present study aims to fill some of this void by studying the evidence from comparable farm household survey data in seven developing countries." This comparative analysis across multiple countries using household surveys provides a quasi-experimental foundation for understanding the mechanisation-child labour relationship across diverse contexts.
The study acknowledges that impacts are modest and indirect; effectiveness is conditional on broader factors beyond mechanisation alone. The document does not provide specifics on study design rigour, potential selection bias, or detailed quantitative effect sizes.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 7 countries
