Note–walking on solid ground: a replication study of ‘Housing health and happiness’

Maria Pía Basurto; Ramiro Burga; José Luis Flor Toro; César Huaroto

doi:10.1080/00220388.2018.1506579

Note–walking on solid ground: a replication study of ‘Housing health and happiness’

Maria Pía Basurto, Ramiro Burga, José Luis Flor Toro, César Huaroto

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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.

Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	1042-1046
Número de páginas	5
Publicación	Journal of Development Studies
Volumen	55
N.º	5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1506579
Estado	Publicada - 4 may. 2019

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This replication study was funded and facilitated by 3ie’s replication programme. We are grateful to the original authors for kindly sharing their codes, raw dataset, and methodological documents. We are also thankful to the 3ie Replication Program staff, especially Benjamin Wood and Annette Brown, the anonymous External Project Advisor, original authors and anonymous reviewers from this journal for helpful feedback.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the International Initiative of Impact Evaluation Second Replication Window which agreement and contract was signed on November 2013.

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