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Large employment and unemployment gaps persist between refugees and other migrants across Europe; refugees are 11.6 percentage points less likely to be employed and 22 points more likely to be unemployed than otherwise similar migrants (Fasani et al., 2022). Linguistic barriers are repeatedly identified as the key obstacle for economic and social integration (Lochmann et al., 2018). A growing experimental literature demonstrates that combining language training with job-search or work-practice components can generate large gains in refugee employment. Randomised controlled trials of refugee integration in Europe have examined a variety of interventions, such as occupation‑specific job‑search intermediation in Germany (Battisti et al., 2019), intensive counselling in Sweden (Andersson Jo...
Air pollution is a significant problem, especially in big cities and industrial agglomerations, and thus affects a substantial part of the population. Permanently exceeding the concentration limits of some pollutants has a very significant impact on the health of the population, especially children and other vulnerable groups. The research deals with air pollution exposure in children and the effect of awareness on change in behaviour, attitudes and preferences. The individual exposure of children to air pollution is determined using personal samplers. The parents of the children are subsequently given detailed individual reports on the results of their child's measurements, including comments and descriptions. The issue of air pollution and potential health impacts is also explained. P...
Globally, one-third of married women experience abuse from their husbands in their lifetime. For some countries, this rate is even higher (e.g., 72.6% in Bangladesh). Intimate partner violence (IPV) creates tension, fear, and anxiety among women, which might affect women’s preferences. We expect that the experience of IPV will make women more risk-averse, have lower trust in other people, and have more doubts about the future. It might also affect women’s willingness to be involved in household decisions. To investigate whether the recollection of the recent experience of IPV affects women’s risk preferences, time preferences, social preferences and willingness to be involved in household decisions, we will use a survey experiment with married women in Bangladesh. The survey includes a ...
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...
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 uses an online experiment to examine how consumers respond to different types of cash rebates linked to environmentally relevant consumption choices. Participants make repeated decisions about how many units of a product to purchase under a fixed price that reflects a carbon charge, with lower consumption associated with greater environmental benefits. We compare behavior under several treatments inlcuding a no rebate control, a guaranteed cash rebate, and several probabilistic rebate schemes that differ in the likelihood of rebate payment. The study is designed to assess whether probabilistic rebates generate similar behavioral responses to guaranteed rebates, and to examine whether responses vary systematically with the probability of receiving a rebate. This experiment con...
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...
We plan to implement an online survey among respondents in Kenya. The survey builds on the findings from a previous data collection in which we find strong positive relationship between religious leaders’ and congregants’ preferences (pro-sociality and behavior towards people with different religious affiliations) and substantial heterogeneity across individual church communities – some are tolerant and some do discriminate. The new survey will focus on estimating the influence of leaders. We will elicit attitudes and controlled measures of social behavior to people from different religious groups and randomize whether the respondents answer the survey before or after a sermon, in which their religious leader will focus on the topic of social behavior and inter-group tolerance.
We explore the role of emotions such as guilt-aversion and shame-aversion, and of social/workplace norms in the determining effort choices of team members. We build a rigorous beliefs-based model to derive predictions in four different treatments that isolate the effects of various emotions and social norms. Participants will be asked to choose the amount of effort they wish to exert in a team project, while being aware of either their team partner’s effort expectations (private signals), their social group’s effort expectations (social signals with and without sanctions), or a combination of both expectations.
This study investigates how experiencing unequal opportunities firsthand influences redistributive preferences and beliefs about fairness. Participants are randomly assigned to perform either an easy or a hard version of an effort task that appears identical across conditions but subtly differs in difficulty, mimicking hidden structural barriers. After this experience, all participants act as impartial spectators and decide how to redistribute income between two agents who faced unequal opportunities in the same task. By comparing redistribution choices and belief updating across those who experienced advantage (easy task) and disadvantage (hard task), we test whether direct exposure to inequality increases fairness-driven redistribution, shifts attributions from effort to circumstance,...