Independent analysis · 2026
How would we know assisted access worked?
How to tell whether naka help desks increased benefit receipt.
- Where
- Independent analysis
- Role
- Independent analyst
- Period
- 2026
- Methods
- Theory of change · identification · measurement
- Output
- Difference-in-differences design with a matched comparison ward and a process evaluation.
The question
Does assisted welfare access at labour nakas increase successful benefit receipt among informal interstate migrants in three Mumbai wards?
Difference-in-differences with a matched comparison ward, plus a process evaluation. An RCT is a later instrument if a partner can actually randomise. Outcome is successful receipt, not registrations. If the diagnostic shows the break is at the counter, this design follows Option B instead.