AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12626 studies with locations in 171 countries.
This study uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether involving other household members in the training process of Antioquia's Departmental Care System (SCA) shifts the distribution of unpaid care work and related outcomes among women caregivers in Colombia. The experiment is embedded in the 2026 cohort of the SCA's formative program across 51 prioritized municipalities. Using a 2x2 factorial design, we evaluate two household-inclusive interventions: a WhatsApp-based information campaign delivering content for each thematic component of the formative program, in which both the participating woman and a co-resident adult household member she nominates receive an infogram and audio message summarizing that component's main learning and prompting household conversation on care ...
Marriage is among the largest financial decisions an Indian family makes. Dowry transfers at a daughter's wedding can consume more than a year of household income, and the quality of her match shapes her economic security, autonomy, and well-being for decades. How wisely families allocate financial resources across daughters therefore matters enormously. Parents typically arrange their children's marriages in birth order. If a good elder match functions as a positive signal to the marriage market, improving how prospective grooms' families view the household, then parents can capitalise on this spillover by strategically allocating more resources to the elder daughter's match. If no such spillover exists, or if parents misjudge it, the same allocation deprives the younger sister of reso...
Poor staff motivation can hinder the delivery of public services. We study how to design information to motivate front-line service providers in a field experiment with Community Health Workers in Guinea-Bissau. Study participants attend a one-day training workshop. We randomly assign half to a module conveying information about program effectiveness which blends scientific evidence with culturally relevant anecdotes. The primary measure of motivation is the performance in a real effort task. This involves phoning households to collect health information and deliver recommendations. We then investigate potential mechanisms via several follow-up surveys. Also, we track participants' performance in their role as CHWs in the months after the workshop. Finally, we follow up with households ...
We study what respondents in Denmark know and think about the functioning of the public pension system. Thanks to the match of survey responses to administrative data from Statistics Denmark, we can test whether respondents have accurate information about their own pension situation. We randomly provide a subset of respondents with information about their pension rights and features of the pension system, with a focus on fiscal sustainability, redistribution within and across generations, or pocketbook motives. We then study how information on these dimensions changes respondents’ views on pension policy and the role of government, and their stated political behavior. In a parallel, non-experimental component, we exploit quasi-random variation in individuals' normal retirement age ge...
This pre-analysis plan details a randomized controlled trial in rural Burundi designed to evaluate the adoption and impact of electric cooking (e-cooking) appliances among newly electrified households. Currently, over 90% of households in the study setting rely on biomass fuels like charcoal and firewood, which contributes to deforestation, increases local air pollution, and limits rural electricity demand. The study aims to identify which appliances and subsidy combinations maximize electricity demand, assess the environmental and economic benefits, and determine if carbon markets can cover appliance costs. The experimental design cross-randomizes the provision of e-cooking technologies—pressure cookers, induction stoves, hot plates, or a combination—and subsidy levels (free versus ins...
In many low-income settings, non-state organizations compensate for limited state capacity by providing services that would otherwise be expected from the government. Such interventions can generate important welfare gains, but their consequences for the future provision of public services are theoretically ambiguous. When households gain access to a reliable decentralized technology, the marginal value of centralized provision may fall, reducing their willingness to support and finance collective infrastructure. Conversely, experiencing the benefits of reliable service delivery may raise households’ expectations, reveal the returns to improved provision, and increase demand for a collective solution. The present study investigates the effect of randomized household access to a dece...
Digital credit through mobile money has expanded rapidly in Mozambique. Yet many users do not know the basic terms of the products available to them, including the service fee, the repayment deadline, the automatic deduction of wallet inflows while a debt is unpaid, and the consequences of non-payment. This study tests whether accurate information about Txuna, the digital credit product offered through M-Pesa, changes how market micro-entrepreneurs in Maputo understand and use digital credit. We interview approximately 1,400 micro-entrepreneurs aged 21 or older who hold an active M-Pesa account registered in their own name, in 14 markets randomly drawn from the official municipal register of Maputo markets and stratified by municipal district and market category. Within each market, res...
Women in rural Tanzania devote substantial time to water-related work — collection, boiling, fuel gathering, and caring for household members with waterborne illness. Within a household-level randomised trial in six villages of Uyui District, Tabora Region, 900 households are assigned to one of three arms: free provision of a Solvatten solar water-treatment canister by World Vision Tanzania (360 households); an unconditional cash transfer calibrated either to the local cost of obtaining safe drinking water or to the local value of the Solvatten canister (180 households); or control (360 households). At the close of the endline interview, every sampled household in all three arms is offered entry into a lottery for a paid six-month community job for the wife. The offer is universal an...
This project aims to shed light on the link between perceptions and expectations about macroeconomic aggregates such as inflation, unemployment rate, and stock market performance and household expectations about their subjective financial well-being. We provide randomized information on the past year’s macroeconomic aggregates to 75% of the sample. One-third of those receive information about the inflation rate over the past 12 months, one-third receive information about the change in the unemployment rate over the past 12 months, and one-third receive information about the past year’s stock market performance. We investigate the impact of the information treatments on households’ macroeconomic expectations as well as their micro-level expectations about their own job loss, household in...
This paper studies why households often respond little to news of a positive future cash flow shock but increase spending sharply when the money is received.