AEA RCT Registry currently lists 10055 studies with locations in 170 countries.
This study examines how exposure to audiovisual content and written content shapes retention in memory, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours about important policy issues.
Despite significant increases in primary school enrollment, the quality of education remains a pressing issue, especially in rural areas with limited resources and infrastructure. This randomized controlled trial examines the impact of the Offline Libraries program, an educational initiative led by an international NGO, on student learning and teaching quality in a remote area. The study involves 140 public primary schools, with 70 receiving the intervention and 70 serving as controls. The intervention deploys digital libraries, which provide educational materials accessible without an internet connection, as well as tablets for students and a SD card for teachers to access these resources. The program also includes comprehensive teacher training and ongoing pedagogical support. We h...
In this experiment, we aim to test the impact of various information nudges on customer retention rate on a mental health platform. We have 4 groups of customers: (i) control group in which customers will not receive any information; (ii) base reminder group in which customers will receive a reminder to book a follow-up appointment; (iii) social information group in which customers will receive the base reminder and some additional social information; (iv) recommendation information group in which customers will receive the base reminder and additional recommendation information about the frequency of therapy sessions. Our target is to compare which intervention is the most effective in persuading customers to book follow-up appointments, potentially improving their mental health condit...
I investigates whether simple, behaviorally informed prompts can reduce biases in faculty nominations for the “Student Excellence Award” at a university in Colombia. I randomly assign faculty members to one of four conditions (one control group and three treatment prompts) delivered immediately prior to nominating a student. These prompts focus on inclusion, unconscious bias, and explicit commitment to equity. The primary outcome is whether faculty nominate students from historically underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds at higher rates, as well as changes in the diversity of nominees.
We study whether motivational interviewing, a technique used in clinical dialogues, can foster vaccination uptake when applied in video informational campaigns. We investigate its interaction with more common nudges in a factorial design.
Cash transfers have been consistently proven to smooth consumption and, especially when conditions are attached, encourage human capital investments in education and health care. However, the evidence on the potentially negative impacts of cash transfers on intimate partner violence (IPV) is less conclusive and varies substantially based on context, intervention parameters, and outcomes measured. Emerging evidence suggests that engaging husbands is critical to mitigating conflict within the household and engaging the broader community might also be required to enable social norm changes. Understanding what mechanisms can create sustained changes in social norms and strengthen the wellbeing of households, will allow program’s recipients, and particularly women, to better materialize the ...
The criteria used to determine who is qualified for higher education and how students are selected among qualified applicants have large and lasting consequences. There are substantial impacts later in life of how much education you take, where you study and what you study. A recurrent political debate in many countries is the fairness of the criteria used to select between applicants. To design a fair admission system one needs to determine what fairness in education is, or should be. An underlying conflict in the debate about the fairness of admission to education is that different fairness ideals professes different views on which factors individuals should be held accountable for. This study investigates the attitudes towards these factors.
We study the impact of a cash transfer program targeting vulnerable households in Benin on the condition that they keep enrolling their adolescent daughter to secondary school. We randomly vary the recipient of the transfer to compare the effects of the program when a female guardian receives the money rather than a male guardian. We investigate whether the conditional cash transfer improves girls' schooling (enrollment, attendance and performance), and several measures of adolescents' autonomy. We also investigate whether the schooling outcomes of the other children in the household are affected by the transfer.
The study uses a cluster-randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of community-based life skills training delivered in safe spaces for adolescent girls on sexual and reproductive health and empowerment outcomes. The effect of safe spaces for girls is compared to the joint provision of said safe spaces with clubs to engage boys and men in the community.
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