AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12869 studies with locations in 172 countries.
Life skills programming has shown promise in improving adolescent wellbeing across outcomes ranging from mental health, reduced exposure to violence, human capital development, etc. However, evidence on the scale-up and sustainability of this type of programming remains elusive. Most of these programs rely on a sustained and consistent flow of donor funding and end when funding windows close. In searching for a more sustainable pathway to scale, BRAC designed a project (called ELA in Schools or ELAS) to adapt the ELA curriculum and delivery model to an after-school club setting, leveraging government funding by relying on classroom spaces to host club meetings and teachers to serve as mentors. The program includes separate clubs for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and adolescent...
This study evaluates whether access to Google Gemini Notebook, an AI-powered study tool available to ASU students, helps undergraduate students build more effective study habits and improve academic performance, and whether the tool is more effective when paired with personalized guidance about evidence-based study practices. The study is a three-arm randomized controlled trial among undergraduate students enrolled in targeted intermediate economics and business courses at Arizona State University. Consenting students complete a baseline survey after the first course exam and are randomly assigned to: (1) a control group receiving the standard course experience and neutral study-related contact; (2) a Gemini Notebook-only group receiving access-oriented guidance, including an introducto...
Our study evaluates whether structured support can improve the use of research evidence in government policymaking. The intervention targets mid-level policymakers working in trade-related ministries and agencies in Ethiopia, where evidence-informed decision-making is widely seen as im-portant but difficult to implement in practice. We test two approaches that build on each other. The first approach/treatment focuses on improving access to and understanding of research through targeted training, rapid evidence reviews, and improved access to academic resources. The additional component builds on this by adding mentoring and co-production of policy-relevant outputs, to strengthen ownership, relevance, and practical application of evidence. These approaches are compared to a business-as...
Impulso Chileno is a program run by Fundación Luksic that supports small business owners in Chile through a combination of non-reimbursable cash grants and access to a digital training platform called La Brújula ("The Compass"), which offers asynchronous content on topics such as value proposition, sales channels, accounting, and business management. The program targets formalized entrepreneurs with monthly sales between CLP 500,000 and CLP 2,000,000 (roughly USD 500–2,000). This study evaluates the seventh edition of the program (ICH7) using a randomized controlled trial. It seeks to answer two questions: first, whether receiving the program improves business performance compared to not receiving financial support; and second, whether larger grants produce larger effects than smaller ...
Chile has experienced a rapid expansion in the tertiary-educated workforce — from 21.9% of the labor force with completed higher education in 2010 to 41.6% in 2025 — without a commensurate expansion in demand for skilled labor. Roughly 250,000 people aged 25–35 are underemployed, close to 40% of all underemployment in the country, while about 60% of firms report persistent difficulty finding talent. Only 44% of affiliates aged 20–35 actively contribute to the pension system. This study evaluates Despega tu Pega (DtP), a national program combining (i) an individualized skills diagnostic delivered through the Relink platform using the MapHa skills taxonomy, across employability, digital and productivity dimensions; (ii) personalized training pathways ("skillpacks") designed to close the ...
We aim to elicit judgments of various scenarios that describe the interaction of two people and vary in how much exploitation there is. Those judgments are on those people's wellbeing, the wrongfulness of the behavior in the scenario, and norms around that wrongfulness. We will recruit two samples: a professional academic philosopher sample, and an online sample through Prolific.
This online randomized controlled trial examines the external validity of prior evidence that linguistic framing can influence intertemporal decision-making. Specifically, the study tests whether the relationship generalizes to a different language, participant population, and online research setting. Participants recruited through Prolific will complete a series of incentivized choices between rewards available at different times. The study experimentally varies linguistic framing while holding the underlying economic information and incentives constant, and examines participants’ choices, decision times, and perceptions of the choice scenarios. Additional questionnaire measures will be collected to support the interpretation of participants’ decisions. One randomly selected decision w...
This study evaluates the impact of Dimagi's Connect Child Health Campaign (CHC), a community-based outreach model delivered by locally led organizations in northern Nigeria, on household-level reach and coverage of child-health services. Frontline workers conduct door-to-door outreach with households containing young children to increase awareness, demand, and uptake of selected preventive and basic curative child-health interventions. The evaluation uses a cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT) with randomization at the ward level, stratified by baseline service coverage and selected contextual characteristics. The study covers 80 wards across four states in northern Nigeria (Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, and Gombe): 40 wards will be randomly assigned to receive the CHC model and 40 to con...
This pre-analysis plan (PAP) describes the empirical strategy for a multi-country laboratory experiment investigating the determinants of community investment in public goods aimed at enhancing local resilience under natural disaster risk. The experiment simulates a community of four homogeneous members who generate income through electricity consumption. The decision environment focuses on how community members collectively determine the scale of investment in an Electrical Energy Storage (EES) system as a local public good that preserves the community's capacity for economic activity through mitigating the risk of disaster-induced outages. The experiment is conducted across four countries: South Korea; the United States; China; and Germany, with a minimum total of 960 student particip...
We send a number of borderline cases to different AI systems and subsequently obtain varying feedback. This feedback is then randomly distributed to different experimenters, who will use the relevant AI recommendations to test the responses of real physicians.