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Labor markets in low-income settings are shaped by pervasive frictions. Thin labor demand and weak intermediation networks, limited screening capacity, and imperfect information on both sides of the market can generate misaligned expectations, misdirected search, and low-quality matches (Breza and Kaur, 2025; Caria and Orkin, 2024). In this project – rather than focusing on firm-side screening and monitoring (see Bassi and Nansamba, 2022) – we randomize personalized information provided to workers about sector- and employer-specific hiring feasibility, and examine how this shapes their employment preferences, and which sectors they target. We will implement a two-sided incentivized résumé-rating (IRR) design (Kessler et al., 2019) that separately measures (i) firm-side screening and (ii...
In an age in which information is abundant but verification is scarce, democratic resilience increasingly depends on citizens’ ability to evaluate online content critically. Strengthening this capacity requires interventions that build misinformation resilience - to be aware, to recognise, to assess, to resist, and to counter false or misleading information online - without constraining free expression. This study examines how digital literacy training affects citizens’ capacity to identify false social media content and their willingness to share it, and how these effects vary across delivery modes. The intervention is designed and delivered by a UK civil society organisation specialising in media literacy. We implement a two-stage randomised experiment. First, participants are random...
Although crop insurance is an important risk management strategy for farmers to secure their income stability, the adoption of crop insurance has been extremely low. Recent studies have highlighted the significant role of social network for crop insurance. This study utilizes unique data on the network of farmers who are members of autonomous micro-credit groups combined with randomized control trials, to investigate the effects of social network and self-learning on the long-term adoption of crop insurance. Premium subsidies were randomly assigned to 729 farmers across 44 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Lai Chau province of Vietnam over three rice cropping seasons. Each farmer’s network was defined by the five fellow VSLA members with whom they most frequently discusse...
We conduct a series of experiments to examine how people update their beliefs in response to non-explicit or silent signals/activities across multiple settings. Experiment 1 studies an individual belief-formation environment, testing whether participants can infer an underlying state optimally after receiving imperfect exogenous signals, which may be explicit, implicit, or silent. Experiment 2 studies a game-theoretic environment using a “colored hats” problem, examining whether individuals correctly update their beliefs about the state of the world by observing others’ actions, which again vary in how explicitly they convey information. Experiment 3 studies a matching environment with incomplete information, investigating whether people learn about the underlying state of the matching ...
In this project, we partner with Peninsula Clean Energy, a California electric utility, to evaluate the impacts of experimental electricity price schedules and control technology for electric vehicle (EV) owners on household electricity use. Electrified transportation is a critical component of global decarbonization plans; beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions from driving, EVs may also balance intermittent renewables by providing battery services to the grid. The ability to realize these benefits depends on two factors: 1) how EV owners respond to the pricing incentives that align private and social marginal costs of electricity consumption, and 2) EV owners' willingness to allow utilities to directly manage their charging load. We use a randomized controlled trial to estimate con...
This randomized controlled trial investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) assistance influences strategic decision-making in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The study tests whether managers trained in the Theory-Based View (TBV) of strategy produce more outcome-aligned acquisition decisions and show a higher confidence in their assessments when aided by general-purpose or agentic AI systems. Three experimental arms are implemented with at least 400 experienced managers from the MedTech and Biotech industries: (1) Control – TBV training plus web search; (2) General AI – TBV training plus ChatGPT (GPT-5.4, reasoning effort set to medium); and (3) Agentic AI – TBV training plus ``Aristotle'', a multi-agent system developed at Bocconi University that applies TBV reasoning. Participa...
This study investigates whether TikTok's recommendation algorithm systematically suppresses content that is politically sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the current trial, we use 200 mobile phones, each configured with a unique TikTok account, to upload 13 distinct text-based video stimuli—each uploaded 100 times across devices—for a total of 1,300 uploads. The stimuli are paired treatment/control texts (in Chinese) spanning five thematic domains: (1) "Wuhan Pneumonia" (武漢肺炎) vs. "COVID-19," (2) "Falun Gong" (法輪功) vs. "Tai Chi" (太極拳), (3) "Support Taiwan Independence" (支持台灣獨立) vs. "Taiwan Independence" (台灣獨立) vs. "Oppose Taiwan Independence" (反對台灣獨立), (4) "Support Palestine Independence" (支持巴勒斯坦獨立) vs. "Palestine Independence" (巴勒斯坦獨立) vs. "Oppose Palestine Independenc...
This study aims to explore management consultants’ perceptions of the effectiveness of management consultancy across different types of organizations. While there is a substantial body of research on the impact of consultancy interventions—particularly in the private sector—there is limited evidence on what consultants themselves view as important and impactful. To address this gap, we plan to conduct a survey of management consultants in Greece. Specifically, we seek to understand which organizational settings consultants consider most conducive to improvements in organizational outcomes, and whether there are perceived barriers to implementing such interventions in public sector institutions.
This study uses a web-based platform to provide college-application recommendations to high-school students in Greece based on each student’s own profile (e.g., academic track/grade, interests, location preferences, and self-reported priorities). Students will interact with the platform, receive a list of additional recommended college programs, and complete a short survey about their perceptions of the recommendation and their intended choices. The study will measure how students evaluate recommendations provided by a web-based system and which criteria they consider legitimate, useful, and trustworthy when forming application plans. Students will: 1. randomly split to control and treatment groups (in ratio 1:2), 2. access the platform, 3. enter or confirm basic profile informati...
We evaluate the economic and social impacts of cash transfers and complementary entrepreneurship training for refugee and host communities in urban Nairobi, Kenya. In a randomized, controlled trial that varies transfer saturation levels among hosts and refugees in Nairobi neighborhoods, we examine impacts on refugee livelihoods, on social cohesion, and on consumer, producer, and input prices, among other outcomes. Outcomes are measured in quarterly follow-up rounds. This design sheds light on the relative importance of liquidity and human capital constraints for refugees, and on the relative importance of these constraints among comparably situated host-community members. Exploiting randomized saturation, we test whether local demand constrains refugees' entrepreneurial growth, and whet...