Archiving and Documenting Health and Human Development Data Sets from "The Impact of Microfinance on Health: Experimental Evidence from India"

项目摘要/摘要 2017年6月，哈佛大学和杜克大学跨学科研究团队进入最后一年 由国立卫生研究院的国家儿童健康研究所资助的一个为期五年的R01项目 和发展(NICHD)。这项申请是通过NICHD的R03机制提供资金，以将 通过这项研究收集的调查和生物特征数据，并使其可供访问，以便将来使用 研究分析，供印度和其他发展中国家的公共部门使用。有问题的研究， “小额信贷对健康的影响：来自印度的实验证据”(NIH 5R01HD069546-05)，是一个 对非银行金融业务扩张的健康和经济影响的多年调查 服务，主要是小额信贷，遍及印度南部泰米尔纳德邦。这件事的严重性 从小额信贷创新干预中收集的独特数据集代表着一个巨大的机遇 用于研究，并需要优秀的文档来促进这些丰富的数据的使用，以最大限度地提高科学 调查结果。存档的数据将使分析既可以绘制研究的实验设计，也可以 最大限度地将其用作观察性研究。因此，泰米尔纳德邦的发现可能会对其他许多邦有所帮助 印度和其他国家理解许多发展中国家贷款类型之间的联系， 特别是在贫困的农村地区。

Project Summary/Abstract In June 2017, the Harvard University and Duke University interdisciplinary research team entered the final year of a five-year R01 project funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute for Children's Health and Development (NICHD). This request is for funding through the NICHD's R03 mechanism to archive the survey and biometric data collected through this study and make it accessible so that it is available for future research analysis and for public sector use within India and other developing countries. The study in question, “The Impact of Microfinance on Health: Experimental Evidence from India” (NIH 5R01HD069546-05), is a multi-year investigation into the health and economic impacts of the expansion of non-banking financial services, primarily microfinance, throughout the state of Tamil Nadu, in Southern India. The magnitude of this unique dataset, collected from an innovative intervention in microfinance, represents a tremendous opportunity for research, and requires excellent documentation to facilitate the use of these rich data to maximize scientific findings. The archived data will enable analyses drawing both on the experimental design of the study as well as maximizing the use of it as an observational study. Thus, findings in Tamil Nadu may help many other states in India and other countries understand the link between types on lending in much of the developing world, especially in poor rural areas.