AEA RCT Registry currently lists 9394 studies with locations in 169 countries.

Most Recently Registered Trials

  • Does Providing Women Living in Rural Areas with Innovative Financial Education Change Household Expenditure and Saving Behaviour?
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    We use a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) to assess whether either a simplified less intensive financial treatment or a tailored just-in-time financial treatment can perform better than traditional financial literacy education in overcoming financial inclusion barriers for a sample of young women in Bangladesh. The simplified less intensive financial treatment will entail participants self-recording daily income and expenditure using a financial diary. Financial diaries are believed to assist households to manage daily expenses, cut unnecessary expenditure and save for unforeseen expenses. The tailored just-in-time financial treatment will involve participants receiving individualized financial counselling, which will involve provision of advice on matters such as opening a bank accoun...

  • Parental Motivated Reasoning
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    Do parents process information about their child’s performance or decisions in an optimistic manner? I exogenously manipulate the ego-relevance of signals parents receive regarding their child’s relative performance or choices. Additionally, I examine whether parents engage in ex-post rationalization when confronted with negative signals about their child’s relative performance or decisions.

  • Monetary policy and households’ spending
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    We examine how households’ expectations on monetary policy influence their spending intentions.

  • Investigating Algorithmic Bias on Spotify
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    In this “sock puppets” experiment, we test whether the recommendation algorithm of a music streaming platform is biased in favor of titles from large economies (here, USA) to the detriment of titles from a small economy (here, France). To do this, we created fictitious users that vary along four dimensions. Firstly, they vary according to their preference for small-economy titles (No, Small, Large, Total). In addition, the profiles vary according to their location (France and USA), their preference for recent or old titles and whether or not they consume titles recommended by the algorithm. Each day of the experiment, users will consume titles in the Get Recommendations API according to their profile (input data). After each consumption phase, the recommended titles are recorded (output...

  • Learning to Accept Public Taxes on Global Warming and Pollution: A Game of Two Cities
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    The study examines the acceptability of environmental taxes (local air pollutant tax and carbon tax) in the field of urban transportation. It employs a laboratory economic experiment in which participants make commute mode choices (public transport vs. passenger vehicle) and determine whether or not they agree to implement environmental taxes on passenger vehicle mobility. It is hypothesized that, by experiencing the benefits of the environmental taxes, participants will find them more acceptable. However, the question of a substitution effect regarding the acceptability of each possible tax remains open.

  • Do attitudes towards policy changes depend on beliefs about policy levels?
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

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  • Female Labor Force Participation and Mixed Gender Workplaces
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    Female labor force participation remains strikingly low in many parts of the developing world. This is particularly true in countries with conservative gender norms that limit the interaction of women with non-familial men. In this study, we plan to test the impact of workplace gender composition on female labor force participation. Our project is based in Bihar, a low-income state in India, where less than ten percent of women work. We plan to test whether the take-up of otherwise identical jobs is higher in workplaces that are women-only compared to ones that are mixed. In additional treatment arms, we test the extent to which safety concerns drive these preferences.

  • How to encourage formal work?
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    This study aims to experimentally test whether financial constraint, attractiveness of worker benefits, and information and behavioural frictions are significant barriers to social security participation.

  • Evaluation of a Worker Voice Intervention
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    We seek to evaluate a worker voice intervention implemented in a large German firm. The intervention aims to improve job satisfaction, attendance, and retention among the firm's workers. It gives workers the opportunity to voice their concerns and shape local working conditions.

  • Uncover your risk! Using Facebook to increase the awareness of diabetes in Indonesia
    Last registered on October 08, 2024

    Using social media to distribute health related information has become increasingly common, especially in light of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, we assess whether social media – in particular Facebook – can serve as an efficient and cost-effective tool to increase the awareness about diabetes type 2 in Indonesia, where the prevalence of the diesease – and with it the rates of undiagnosed cases – has dramatically increased in the last decade. We use Facebook’s advertisement function to randomly distribute informative ads related to the risk and consequences of diabetes to Indonesian Facebook users above the age of 21. The ads differ in their content and graphical design, but equally invite viewers of the ads to visit an information website on which they can participate in...