AEA RCT Registry currently lists 11768 studies with locations in 170 countries.
Secondary school completion rates in rural Côte d'Ivoire remain low, characterized by modest pass rates on the Grade 10 national examination and significant early school attrition. This study evaluates the efficacy of two tutoring interventions—peer-led and teacher-led—in improving academic performance and school continuation. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 1,000 adolescents in the Taabo region, stratified into two cohorts: 500 Grade 10 students at risk of examination failure and 500 adolescents who have exited the formal school system between Grades 7 and 9. Within each cohort, participants are randomly assigned to peer tutoring, teacher tutoring, or a control group. Treatment arms receive up to 15 sessions of tutoring focusing on core curriculum content, examin...
This study evaluates whether an artificial intelligence (AI) tool can improve job search outcomes for young people seeking work in Argentina. The project focuses on applicants to a youth employability program who were not admitted to the program but are actively looking for employment. Participants will be invited to use an online AI-based chatbot designed to help them better identify their skills and build a formal skill-based CV. The tool aims to help users better understand how to formulate and communicate their skills towards employers. The study uses a randomized controlled design. Eligible participants will be randomly assigned either to receive access to the AI tool or to a comparison group that does not receive access during the study period, but completes a placebo task. All p...
Smallholder farmers in Gujarat, India face significant crop losses due to climate-related risks, yet adoption of stress-tolerant seed varieties remains low. This study evaluates a low-cost, scalable intervention that works through agro-dealer networks to improve farmer access to improved seed varieties. Using a randomized controlled trial, we examine both direct effects on dealers who receive the intervention and indirect spillover effects on nearby untreated dealers, with the goal of understanding how climate-resilient agricultural technologies can be diffused cost-effectively through private input supply chains.
We collect online survey data from the United States to study whether an information treatment embedded within a survey can causally affect individuals’ attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions regarding policies related to smartphone and social media use.
Menstruation stigma affects school participation and social inclusion. Evidence on menstruation stigma relies on face-to-face surveys collected with tablets in a Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) setting. Estimates on a sensitive topic like menstruation stigma can be affected by the presence of the enumerator in a CAPI format. These biased estimates can flaw cost-effectiveness calculations for interventions addressing menstruation stigma. Policy decisions may be based on systematically biased measures. In this study, we evaluate the effect of a privacy enhancing Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) survey method on reported levels of menstruation stigma. We created a new plug-in to implement the ACASI format aimed at minimizing the enumerator and third-party p...
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...
Sexual harassment in customer-facing workplaces remains a significant barrier to women’s economic participation, particularly in settings where formal protections are weak. In small retail shops, harassment often occurs in public view, placing responsibility on coworkers or shop owners to decide whether and how to intervene. These decisions may be influenced not only by moral considerations but also by economic incentives. This study examines whether a customer’s economic value to a business affects bystander responses to workplace harassment. We conduct a field-based vignette experiment with retail shop owners and employees working in customer-facing shops in Delhi, India. The vignette was specifically designed for this study to closely match the setting respondents know from their ...
Ghanaian policy, like many national and international efforts, has tended to provide free liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves to spur demand for clean cooking. Free stoves and other durables may be insufficient to generate persistent use of clean cooking if polluting fuel users globally cannot afford the recurring fuel cost. The recurring cost of clean fuels pose liquidity constraints as well as time and transport burdens on users who lack financial tools, while biomass fuels can be purchased in small quantities and are more readily available. Digital finance via mobile money could provide access to a safe place to save and credit all the while streamlining clean fuel purchases. We hypothesize that both free stoves and access to an LPG-specific digital financial platform, called GasPay...
As electric vehicle (EV) charging networks emerge, they must confront challenges in developing sustainable business models amidst rapidly evolving markets. Operators with excess charger capacity may set pricing policies attempting to encourage utilization of EV chargers, particularly when linked to utilization of a scarce linked resource (such as parking spaces). In this experiment, we test whether a subscription discount policy changes drivers’ charging volume (kWh) and frequency (charging days).
We quantify the extent to which Ukrainian refugees (from either the Ukrainian or Russian linguistic group) caused by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, face discrimination in access to the Czech labor market. Understanding the role of discrimination in access to the Czech labor market during a sudden and unprecedented inflow of refugees is especially important, due to Czechia’s lack of previous comparable immigration experience and due to public budget constraints. To deal with this new situation, the Czech government has adopted the so-called “Lex Ukraine” based on which Ukrainian refugees can start to work as soon as they enter Czechia, without additional bureaucratic burden for the prospective employer, as if they were permanent residents. To measure the differential treatment of ...