Urban resettlement in Kigali displaces households whose informal enterprises depend on location, footfall and social networks that compensation cannot restore instantly. The design treats the valuation-band boundary as the assignment variable: households just above and just below a band threshold receive systematically different compensation schedules, and the discontinuity in re-entry outcomes at that threshold identifies the effect of compensation timing. The paper specifies the running variable, the cutoff structure, the bandwidth selection rule, the local polynomial estimator and the manipulation and covariate-balance diagnostics that the design requires. It also reports the distributional context for a related DHS indicator on discontinuation due to husband's disapproval, drawn from 74 country-survey observations across 28 African countries between 1992 and 2025, with a mean of 3.73 and a standard deviation of 2.376, as an illustration of the kind of cross-national gender-relations variation that resettlement research must hold constant. The contribution is methodological: it converts an administrative artefact of valuation-band scheduling into a credible identification strategy for compensation timing, and it specifies the conditions under which the resulting estimates can be interpreted causally. The design is proposed, not executed; no household-level resettlement data are analysed here.
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