Intervention 1: Regular conditional cash transfer program (RCCT)
Intervention 2: Modified conditional cash transfer program (MCCT)
Both interventions have different targeting, conditionalities, benefits and modes of implementation. However, individuals who were not eligible in RCCT program were those who do not have house/shelter to call their own. These populations (e.g. homeless, indigenous peoples), were catered into the MCCT program, will less strict conditionalities and were given shelter assistance so that they could rent a house/shelter.
Although the main difference between the two populations were "having shelter or not" prior to inclusion in the program, this was resolved upon provision of shelter assistance under MCCT program. Would it be possible to compare the effects of varying conditionalities between the two programs in this case, on an outcome?
From my point of view and without entering in formalities, the key assumption is that, in the absence of the intervention (and let's say plus shelter) both treated groups are comparable (in that case you can use a regression with conditioning covariates) or at least you can assume they follow the same trend (in that case, you can use fixed effects).
Thanks a lot for the answer Dr. José-Ignacio Antón . I forgot to mention that my outcome is child nutritional status (categorical variable) and it's a panel data of child's weight, height and age.
Dear Deborah Lagura Herrera
Basically, A placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial (RCT) design is suitable for evaluating efficacy because it eliminates bias through various methods, including intervention uniformity and double blinding.
Have a look: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3912314/
Best Regards
Dr. Fatemeh Khozaei
Deborah Lagura Herrera ,
As the assigment to each program seems very far from random, you should be able to discuss/evaluate whether you can assume unconfoundness after controlling for pre-treatment or exogenous covariates (particularly, elegibility conditions) and the use of fixed effects.
Such an assumption lies on the speficities of the programmes and the context. Probably, you are the most qualified person to deal with that discussion.
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