AEA RCT Registry currently lists 11821 studies with locations in 170 countries.
Can synthetic experiments with AI agents serve as rigorous research tools for generating insights, testing hypotheses, and informing managerial decision-making under uncertainty? This pre-analysis plan specifies a comprehensive validation study comparing 16 persona generation methods across a 2×2×4 factorial design: two base sampling algorithms crossed with a clustering algorithm and four constraint configurations. Each of the 16 persona generation methods generates a sample of 800 college undergraduate students who serve as synthetic experimental subjects. The 16 samples undergo the identical 2×2 factorial experiment (Causal Reasoning Training × ChatGPT Access) previously conducted with real human participants, with participants randomized across the four experimental conditions (200 p...
This study investigates the role of incentives on reported macroeconomic beliefs and belief updating following exposure to central bank communication.
This study aims to understand how smallholder farmers in Odisha respond to monsoon onset forecasts delivered through voice calls (IVRS) in addition to text messages with forecasts sent to all farmers. It will examine how farmers interpret these forecasts and whether the information influences key agricultural decisions, such as field preparation, sowing timing, and crop choice, during the 2025 Kharif season. The study will evaluate the impact of the monsoon onset forecast dissemination program implemented by the Government of Odisha (GoO) through its Krishi Samruddhi (KS) IVRS platform. The GoO has randomly selected blocks to receive IVRS messages with onset forecasts starting May 22, 2025, through June 16, 2025.
This study investigates household dynamics in communication and take-up for health check-ups for elderly women in Tamil Nadu. We conduct our study in two parts. In part 1, we survey elders and their caretakers to measure demand for check-ups for elders using incentivized choices over health check-ups, varying the degree of caretaker involvement required across check-up variants. In part 2, for households where we are able to reach both the elder and their caretaker, we will conduct a randomized evaluation of interventions to improve take-up of free health check-ups at a nearby private hospital. We will cross-randomize two interventions. First, we will randomize who is informed about the check-up: either only the elder is informed or both the elder and the caretaker are informed about th...
This RCT aims to measure the impact of a 24-month STEM training initiative designed for first-generation women engineering students in India. Deployed nationwide by an Indian education start-up, the program employs a holistic strategy to overcome multifaceted barriers faced by women in STEM fields. By fostering a women-only environment, providing online accessibility, and emphasizing self-directed learning, the initiative seeks to address institutional, and psychological challenges hindering women's success in STEM. This study will evaluate two cohorts of the program: 2024-2026 and 2025-2027. The study, spanning 2023-2028, aims to evaluate the WE program's efficacy in enhancing participants' technical and higher-order skills, ultimately influencing their labor market outcomes once these...
We conduct a multi-stage randomized experiment among university students in the UK that combines (i) randomized information about harassment prevalence drawn from prior survey evidence, (ii) randomized monetary incentives for adopting a mobile safety app, and (iii) randomized access to a real-time video-call protection feature among adopters. We study effects on crime experiences, perceived safety, beliefs about crime risk, anxiety, and mobility. We characterize selection into adoption, and study how effects vary across individuals. We additionally estimate willingness to pay for safety and develop a structural model of nighttime travel choices. The update reflects: (i) design changes in Round 2 (expanded sample, 13 universities) and (ii) an updated supplementary Prolific study with WTP...
Teaching children reading and English as a second language (ESL) skills---skills that provide lifelong returns---requires access to engaging, contextually relevant materials. For children outside of Western contexts, English-language story options often lack familiar settings, norms, problems, and characters. We aim to learn whether stories written with generative AI assistance can fill that gap by creating context-relevant stories that better engage children in India.
This study examines how exposure to policy trade-offs affects individuals’ value priorities regarding artificial intelligence (AI) governance. Many public policies involving AI require balancing multiple normative objectives, such as efficiency, safety, and privacy protection. While prior studies often measure stated preferences over these values, less is known about whether exposure to explicit policy trade-offs can change individuals’ value prioritization. We conduct a survey experiment focusing on AI-assisted traffic management systems. Respondents first report the importance they attach to three policy objectives: traffic efficiency, traffic safety, and personal data privacy. Participants are then randomly assigned to either a control group or a treatment group. The treatment group...
This study aims to investigate the impact of personalized risk feedback and information utility framing on individuals' health self-assessments, emotional responses, and willingness to engage in preventive behaviors related to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and how to alleviate information avoidance in health. We will recruit participants through an online platform and present them with a CKD prevention campaign. In the first stage, we will collect baseline data on subjective health predictions, and emotional state. Participants will also provide basic health information to generate a personalized CKD risk assessment. In the second stage, participants will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: a control group that does not receive their risk assessment, a feedback group that recei...
This research project aims to understand to what extent information about a financial product, when provided either to men or women, affects spouses’ beliefs and attitudes towards the financial product, product purchase decisions, and intra-household information sharing, cooperation and conflict outcomes. We conduct a randomized controlled trial among 3100 pastoral households in Kenya and Ethiopia. We randomize, at the household-level, the gender of the spouse that receives information about an index insurance and savings financial product through video interventions. Additionally, we cross-randomize whether or not the household member that is targeted with information can directly share the information with their spouse, by requesting the intervention team to also show the video to the...