AEA RCT Registry currently lists 7982 studies with locations in 167 countries.
Food waste is a major challenge for the short-term business profitability and the long-term environmental sustainability of food service providers, mainly in developing countries. This research is focused on food waste generated at kitchen stage by SMEs restaurants in the for-profit hospitality sector of Cusco (Peru). SMEs are at least 90% of food service providers in the study context. Restaurants generate approximately 14.6 tons of organic waste per day (99% is food waste), which constitutes 24% of the total food waste and 13% of the total solid waste generated in Cusco city. This research aims to enhance the existing literature by evaluating experimentally the effects of information transfer on small and micro-sized food service enterprises, with the ultimate objective of reducing fo...
Given the high rate of delayed adoption of antenatal care (ANC), and high rates of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in Uganda, research on the period of time before confirmation of pregnancy is critical to understand underlying beliefs that guide behaviors ultimately important for maternal and neonatal health. Home pregnancy tests - which now cost less than 10 cents each - have the potential to facilitate FP uptake and significantly improve reproductive, maternal and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda. These tests are easy to administer, disposable, inexpensive, and have a low false positive rate. Yet, for women living in rural areas in sub-Saharan countries, these tests are typically unavailable outside of health centers or they are prohibitively ...
The goal of the experiment is to test the existence of a causal effect of earnings uncertainty on labour supply at the extensive margin in the presence of out-of-work benefits. The design of the experiment is strongly inspired by how zero hours contracts work, i.e. what is uncertain is not the pay rate itself but the availability of work. At the same time, if work is not available, participants do not have an alternative possibility of gaining income but they do gain ‘leisure’. The experiment aims to study the decision to take up a job with insecure pay when there is an alternative out of work benefit that is lost.
This study aims to understand the influence of social norms on survey responses, focusing on parenting behaviors as reported by a sample of ~2,500 parents, and the educational and job aspirations of their adolescent children in Ghana. We do so through two survey experiments. With regards to parents, we test if random prior exposure to a survey module reminding them about social image around culturally sensitive parenting behaviors leads them to report differently on their own disciplinary practices towards their children. We assess whether there is an effect of eliciting social pressure norms on parents reports of their parenting practices, in a way that aligns with their perceived social norms in the community around these behaviors. We test heterogeneity by examining differences in ef...
Background: Physicians’ behavior can be influenced a number of potential incentives as well as noise. The purpose of the research is to investigate the effects of both financial and non-financial incentives on physicians’ prosocial behavior with the advice of AI in health care settings. Methods: This study protocol draws on a natural setting to carry out a real effort experiment design of data filling, simulating the process of physicians’ diagnosis and treatment with AI under different incentives. The main task of the subjects is to fill data of abnormal results from paper test report into an input system developed by the software O-Tree in different settings of incentives. We plan to test whether physicians respond differently to financial incentives of different payment systems comp...
The San Antonio G.O.A.L.S. Initiative is the first randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of cash assistance in San Antonio, Texas. Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas (MHM) commissioned this RCT that provides monthly cash payments of $500 to participants via pre-paid debit cards. Led by Dr. Melinda Denton (PI), a research team from UTSA is serving as the independent third-party evaluator for the study and has randomly assigned participants to treatment and control groups. Surveys will be administered to participants 5 times over the course of the study and semi-structured, in-person interviews will be conducted with a subset of participants. The primary research question is: “Does combining cash assistance with other services (i.e., a cash plus intervention) prop...
This project focuses on the risk attitude and choices between now and later of the Dutch population.
This study experimentally explores public good production levels, and the endogenous formation of network structures to facilitate output sharing, among agents with homogenous production costs and valuations. This study is an complementary study of "ENDOGENOUS NETWORK FORMATION IN LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS" in which we studied agents with heterogeneous production costs or valuations in the same decision context.
The Thucydides Trap theory postulates that a rising power will inevitably challenge the status of an established power, and the established power will also take measures to restrain and suppress the rising power. Conflict between the two is seen as unavoidable. We test weather future economic prospects matter. If future economic prospects are positive, both parties are more likely to engage in cooperation, whereas if prospects are negative, conflicts are more likely to arise. We use a lab experiment to test cooperation and conflict between a rising power and an established power and how future economic prospects (a growing versus a declining total pie) affect the occurrence of conflict. We further explore possible measures to avoid conflict in this background.
Individuals need to work under various forms of distractions in modern educational and professional settings. Some distractions require individuals to multitask, like phone calls and some distractions do not require a response, like workplace noises. We aim to use a lab experiment to measure the effect of different types of distractions on productivity, to study heterogeneity in handling distractions, and to elicit willingness to pay to avoid being distracted.