AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12198 studies with locations in 170 countries.
We investigate the attention and influence that scientific evidence receives in online settings. In an online experiment, participants in the role of "senders" view sets of articles based on research studies, and decide which articles to share and what content to provide alongside the article. We vary features of the articles and the communication process to shed light on the drivers of online attention to different types of evidence. In a separate experiment, participants in the role of "receivers" will choose which articles to click on to read more about.
In a 2x3 design, this study investigates three factors that may matter for group and team decision-making and performance in a portfolio allocation task: cognitive composition, independence, and aggregation. Participants are recruited via Prolific, with an emphasis on recruiting retail investors. They are given a hypothetical $1,000 and financially incentivized to design portfolios that maximize realized Sharpe ratios after 3 months. They design a portfolio alone in Round 1 of the task and again as part of a two-member team in Round 2. We plan to recruit 600 participants to form 300 teams. The two-condition treatment variable targets team cognitive composition, i.e., the distribution of thinking styles among teammates. We define thinking styles as approaches to processing information...
We conduct an online experiment where subjects make two types of choices: one involving monetary lotteries and another involving riskless alternatives, the values of which can be computed through simple mathematical operations. The objective of the study is to evaluate whether subjects display similar behaviors in these two environments and to understand why.
I administer an online survey to approximately three to four thousand parents of parents to measure perceptions of college financial aid, along with a few embedded treatments. The measured perceptions of college aid will inform one paper that measures the welfare cost of misperception of marginal aid phaseout rates. The embedded treatments - which include an information treatment, explainer treatment, savings variation, labor supply framing, and question ordering - may be analyzed in separate future papers.
Rice cultivation serves as a crucial source of livelihood and food security for rural populations. However, traditional farming methods often face significant operational and environmental challenges, including high water consumption and the intense labor required for manual paddy transplanting. Rising agricultural wages, water scarcity, and climate volatility contribute to higher production costs, making traditional cultivation increasingly expensive and less profitable for smallholder farmers. This research aims to address these challenges by proposing a cluster randomized controlled trial that provides technical training on Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) technology along with climate-resilient rice variety. This approach enables farmers to substitute technology for manual labor, reducing t...
This study examines how organizational management styles and artificial intelligence (AI) framing influence the decision-making behavior of street-level bureaucrats in citizen-facing contexts. Using an online survey experiment, participants will be randomly assigned to scenarios that manipulate management style (e.g., bureaucratic, innovative, and participatory) and AI system value framing. Participants will then respond to hypothetical situations and be asked to answer post-vignette survey questions, allowing researchers to assess how these factors shape their behavioral orientations and reliance on AI-assisted recommendations in a decision-making process. This research project involves three research questions: 1) how does organizational management style interacted with role percepti...
This project concerns the evaluation of a mathematics intervention in multi-digit arithmetic. The intervention is rolled out as a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in the fall 2026 in around 100 schools in Denmark with the purpose of improving adaptivity, flexibility, accuracy, and mathematics achievement.
We study how identity salience affects preferences. In an online survey with approximately 2,000 respondents, we randomly assign participants to watch one of two short videos before completing incentivised economic tasks. After the video, respondents complete three tasks.
Integration agreements between job seekers and public employment services define mutual obligations for labor market integration, including job search requirements, the support provided by the agency, and the conditions under which compliance is monitored and sanctioned. We study how reminding job seekers of different dimensions of these commitments affects their job search behavior, their knowledge of the rules they are subject to, and their labor market outcomes. The study is conducted in the context of the French Contrat d'Engagement (CE), a mandatory integration agreement signed by job seekers and caseworkers upon registration with the French public employment service, France Travail. The CE includes a personalized action plan specifying activities to support labor market integratio...
We experimentally test whether individuals' causal belief systems are well described by the workhorse model of the literature on causal cognition and misspecified mental models: Causal Bayesian Networks (CBN). We ask two questions. First, are belief systems rationalizable by the theory that individuals process data through the lens of a CBN or a distribution over CBNs? Second, do individuals' beliefs and choices exhibit the comparative statics predicted by the literature on misspecified learning? Participants interact with computer-generated systems involving binary variables, make incentivized choices, and report beliefs about causal relationships.