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Note–Walking on Solid Ground: A Replication Study of ‘Housing Health and Happiness’
cris.boxmetadata.label.dateissued
04 browse.startsWith.months.may 2019
cris.boxmetadata.label.accesslevel
open access
cris.boxmetadata.label.resourcetype
editorial
cris.boxmetadata.label.authors
University of California
cris.boxmetadata.label.publisher
Routledge
cris.boxmetadata.label.abstract
This note summarises our replication study ‘Housing, Health, and Happiness’, henceforth HHH2009, which constitutes an important paper in the literature of housing and slum upgrading. The original authors conduct a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of ‘Piso Firme’, an intervention that replaced in-house dirt floors with cement in Mexico. We conduct a Pure Replication (PR), a Measurement and Estimation Analysis (MEA), and a Theory of Change Analysis (TCA). In our PR, we did not find any major discrepancy with the original study. In the MEA, we generally find the results to be strongly robust to different types of alternative analysis. Finally, in TCA we explore a dimension that was not reported on the published version of the study and found that households with high initial levels of cement-floor coverage benefitted significantly less from Piso Firme’s intervention. These findings are discussed in greater detail on International Initiative for Impact Evaluation’s (3ie) working paper version.
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationstartpage
1042
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationendpage
1046
cris.boxmetadata.label.volume
55
cris.boxmetadata.label.issue
5
cris.boxmetadata.label.language
English
cris.boxmetadata.label.ocdeknowledgeArea
Economía
cris.boxmetadata.label.doi
cris.boxmetadata.label.scopusidentifier
2-s2.0-85053465899
cris.boxmetadata.label.source
Journal of Development Studies
cris.boxmetadata.label.containerissn
00220388
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