AEA RCT Registry currently lists 10165 studies with locations in 170 countries.
In this project, we aim to investigate the size of the race gap within the Colombian Public Employment Services (PES) focusing on the role of firms and their relationship with job centers. We mix administrative sources and direct surveys to measure firms' and job counselors' de facto, explicit, and implicit bias within the employment center against afro-descendant job seekers. In addition, we will test how information about firms’ unconscious bias toward afro-descendant job seekers could affect firms hiring behavior. We will also test how information about firms’ beliefs and expectations about afro-descendants could change job counselors’ referral behavior.
Gender segregation in labor markets is a prevalent issue in poor countries, leading to significant wage gaps and talent misallocation. Efforts to address this segregation by promoting female labor supply depend on the level of discrimination women face upon entering the labor market. Our study tests for gender discrimination in Uganda, characterized by severe asymmetric information problems. Partnering with a vocational training center, we conduct an experiment with employers to examine the effect of gender on hiring decisions for trainees. Our key intuition is that, in contexts characterized by severe asymmetric information, trustworthiness is a key determinant of hiring decisions. Given the evidence that women are generally perceived as more prosocial/trustworthy, we investigate whet...
We aim to conduct a set of surveys and a novel decision-making procedure in order to derive insights into views of unrestricted central authority versus political democracy and political freedom held by people of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan and their diaspora in Canada and the U.S. We are investigating the nature of differences of views on these subjects as they vary by age cohort, education, socioeconomic status, and past political “class background” as that term was understood in China under Mao Zedong, and by region of China or Hong Kong or Taiwan, plus differences in the degree of exposure to life in Canada and the U.S. The project will help social scientists to obtain a better understanding of some factors that may govern whether China will transition from one-party rule to...
Through a field experiment in 17 primary schools in China, this study aims to investigate how the access to digital technology in after-school programs affects the performance of K12 students. Specifically, we aim to examine whether interactions with the search engine vs. generative AI in the after-school program lead to better performance in the after-school program and the school curriculums.
In this incentivized online survey experiment, we investigate the effect of peer-to-peer referrals on the take-up of a beneficial educational opportunity – an online soft-skill training course – focusing on enrollment and completion. The course focuses on self-efficacy, helping learners acquire valuable skills to better set and achieve their personal and professional goals. In the project's first phase, we re-contacted the set of students who had completed the last edition of the program and invited them to submit up to four referrals for their peers to be invited to the new edition. We refer to these students as the “seeds” for our referral experiment. In the second phase, students nominated by the seeds are randomly assigned to a treatment or a control group. Everyone receives an invi...
This research aims to estimate the price elasticity of demand for electric cooking in rural areas. We also aim to identify the degree of substitution away from traditional solid fuels when electric cooking is accessible. How do the cooking behavior and patterns change when households use electric stoves? What is the impact of electric stoves on household air pollution, and what are time-saving effects for women? self-reported health measures, and well-being?
We will explore individuals' selling behavior when they hold multiple indivisible units of a good and encounter buyers stochastically, each offering to purchase a limited number of units at a per-unit price. The experiment thus examines the dynamic selling behavior of sellers when they face uncertainty about future opportunities to sell their items.
Academic conversation about prosocial lending via crowdfunding platforms assumes that lenders and borrowers interact directly. Yet, the major platform for crowdfunding prosocial loans relies on partner institutions that manage the process on behalf of the borrowers. In this study, we test whether borrowers could be trained in more autonomous management of their campaign. Using a randomized control trial, we measure the marginal impact of adding crowdfunding training to group of waitlisted borrowers at a government-sponsored organization for small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. Treatment groups received a baseline training about basic managerial and financial accounting, as well as a crowdfunding training session during a workshop day to prepare the campaign. Control groups only rec...
In this project, we investigate whether those in leadership roles consider the age of workers when assigning credit for group efforts, particularly when individual contributions are unobservable? How does the age of a supervisor or boss, and that of co-workers shape individual incentives among team members to contribute to a group effort? As collaborative work structures involving workers from different generations gain prominence in organizations, understanding fair credit allocation becomes pivotal for fostering inclusive and efficient workplaces. Evidence on how age heterogeneity in work teams impacts credit attribution and productivity is limited, emphasizing the need for this research to address a critical gap in knowledge.
This study will measure the influence of reported educational attainment on third-party evaluations of job applicants, focusing the penalties or rewards associated with applicants' reporting having earned a high school equivalency credential. We will recruit roughly 1,000 hiring managers from the five states (CA, FL, GA, NY, and TX) with the largest number of GED testers in 2022 and ask them to evaluate resumes of applicants with randomly assigned characteristics, including implied gender, implied race/ethnicity, work experience, volunteer experience, and educational attainment. We will assess the impact of observing different educational credentials on these hiring managers' appraisals of the resumes, focusing on the relationship between observing a high school equivalency credential a...