AEA RCT Registry currently lists 11919 studies with locations in 170 countries.
This project studies how the opportunity to reveal emotion affects trust behavior, including trust decisions, beliefs, and ambiguity attitudes. I implement a modified trust game in which trustors may reveal positive or negative emotions, with varying degrees of flexibility over valence and intensity to the trustees, before the trustees decide how much to return. The study identifies the mechanisms through which access to emotion revelation shapes trusting behavior within a rigorous economic framework. It also examines patterns of emotion revelation and the motivations behind them.
One-to-one tutoring is widely regarded as the gold standard for personalised education, yet it remains prohibitively expensive to deliver at scale. Recent advances in generative AI have prompted growing interest in whether large language models (LLMs) can approximate the pedagogical effectiveness of expert human tutors. However, empirical evidence remains scarce. Most published evaluations of AI tutoring systems rely on user satisfaction metrics or short-duration laboratory tasks rather than rigorous field experimentation with validated learning outcome measures. An exploratory randomised controlled trial (RCT) conducted in 2025 provided initial evidence that AI tutoring can support student mathematics learning at levels similar to expert human tutoring (N = 165; arxiv:2512.23633). ...
Essential public-sector workers in low- and middle-income countries (teachers, health workers, police officers) operate under chronic stress, exposure to community violence, and institutional neglect of their mental health. Burnout, anxiety, and untreated trauma are pervasive among these frontline workers, yet rigorous evidence on scalable interventions to support their wellbeing remains nearly nonexistent. This gap matters not only to the workers themselves, but also to the quality of public services they deliver. We provide experimental evidence on whether socio-emotional resilience training can improve the mental health and professional effectiveness of essential workers, focusing on public school teachers in Guatemala. We evaluate SanaMente, a trauma-informed training program that b...
Over the past five decades, the labor force participation rate of American men has declined significantly--from 80% in the 1970s to just around 68% today--and similar trends are observed across the developed world. During the same period, the fastest-growing occupations have been those traditionally considered “feminine,” such as nursing. Are these two trends connected? Do masculinity norms discourage men from entering the labor force by deterring them from pursuing jobs perceived as feminine? We document that male employment participation declined more following sectoral reallocation in more gender-traditional labor markets, as proxied by occupational segregation by gender. We are then examining whether masculinity norms systematically distort men’s occupational choices away from incom...
India's Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) is deploying AI-assisted automated metering infrastructure across 42 electricity distribution utilities (DISCOMs) to target 250 million smart meter installations. The tasks automated by these systems, including physical meter reading, manual billing, and field-based fault detection, define the routine occupational core of an estimated three to four million contractual workers in the Indian electricity distribution sector. Unlike permanent DISCOM employees protected by the Industrial Disputes Act 1947, contractual workers have no statutory redundancy protection and are the primary channel through which AI-induced displacement will materialise. This study evaluates whether a structured job-matching intervention can mitigate the employment...
This study examines how social context influences women’s demand for menstrual health technologies in Uganda. While improved menstrual products are increasingly available, adoption remains low even when cost barriers are reduced. We investigate whether social visibility and household dynamics affect willingness to pay for these technologies. We implement a framed field experiment that varies both information provision and the social context in which choices are made. Participants make incentivized purchase decisions for a set of menstrual products under different conditions. This design allows us to estimate baseline demand, as well as the impact of information and social environment on adoption decisions. Primary outcomes capture willingness to pay for different products. The stu...
One of the major challenges in the Swedish labour market today is the growing number of job seekers with weak labour market attachment. In 2010, approximately half of the job seekers registered with the Swedish Public Employment Service were assessed as belonging to this group; today, the corresponding figure is close to 75 percent. This development highlights the importance of identifying and implementing efficient measures for those who have become stuck in unemployment and social exclusion. Previous research has shown that interventions with intensified job search assistance can be an efficient way to increase the share of job seekers who find employment, also for groups with weak competitiveness. In this study, we examine the effects of a job-search assistance intervention with a st...
Using a vignette experiment, we test how social initiatives affect stakeholder perceptions of companies.
This project studies whether organizational practices developed in advanced economies can be successfully transplanted to improve firm performance in the developing world. It focuses on two contrasting coordination models commonly used by multinational firms operating in Ethiopia: a Chinese-style model that emphasizes hierarchical discipline, rule-following, and centralized authority, and a US-style model that emphasizes horizontal teamwork, open communication, and shared responsibility. While both approaches are widely adopted in practice, there is limited causal evidence on their effectiveness when implemented in local firms operating in different cultural and institutional environments. The study asks whether these foreign organizational practices improve worker performance, and thro...
This project aims to systematically investigate individuals' ambiguity attitudes under uncertainty by integrating evidence from choice behavior and natural language explanations. While existing studies primarily infer ambiguity attitudes from choices alone, this project proposes a complementary approach that combines traditional experimental elicitation with text-based measures. The project employs a set of well-established and frontier ambiguity elicitation tasks and social and strategic ambiguity. In each decision context, participants are asked not only t o make choices that reveal ambiguity attitudes, but also to report subjective likelihood assessments and provide written explanations describing how they arrive at these judgments, including their confidence, optimism, and sensit...