AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12716 studies with locations in 171 countries.
This study examines the influence of role models on students’ academic aspirations, motivation, and performance. We implement a randomized controlled trial in a large undergraduate class with a two-layer randomization design. First, half of the students are exposed to short biographies of six successful eminent young economists who overcame various challenges, while the other half serve as a control group. Second, students are randomly assigned to small working groups of 3–4 peers, which generates exogenous variation in exposure to high-achieving classmates. This design allows us to separately identify the effects of “distant” role models—prominent figures outside the classroom—and “proximate” role models—high-performing peers within the classroom. By comparing the impacts of these two ...
Chile has experienced a rapid expansion in the tertiary-educated workforce — from 21.9% of the labor force with completed higher education in 2010 to 41.6% in 2025 — without a commensurate expansion in demand for skilled labor. Roughly 250,000 people aged 25–35 are underemployed, close to 40% of all underemployment in the country, while about 60% of firms report persistent difficulty finding talent. Only 44% of affiliates aged 20–35 actively contribute to the pension system. This study evaluates Despega tu Pega (DtP), a national program combining (i) an individualized skills diagnostic delivered through the Relink platform using the MapHa skills taxonomy, across employability, digital and productivity dimensions; (ii) personalized training pathways ("skillpacks") designed to close the ...
New Teacher Center’s recent federal Education and Innovation Research grant demonstrates that well-facilitated Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) lead to teacher growth and student learning. In this study, we will partner with an artificial intelligence-driven educator coaching tool to explore the effectiveness and impact of teacher PLCs that receive AI-enabled feedback compared to PLCs that self-assess without neutral party, low inference feedback. If proven effective, an AI-enabled feedback approach could yield a highly cost-effective, impactful coaching tool for school communities.
This study examines how individuals interpret financial performance information and make entrepreneurial and business decisions. Participants evaluate business scenarios presenting different financial-performance conditions and provide judgments concerning business performance, financial indicators, and potential business actions. The study collects measures of participants’ use and understanding of accounting and financial information, familiarity with and use of financial ratios, accounting and finance education or training, entrepreneurship experience and background, and experience using artificial intelligence and other technology-assisted resources for business analysis. The study also includes measures of regulatory focus and fit to examine individual differences in decision orien...
Across the developing world, women face mobility barriers that constrain access to jobs, education, and social networks. Gender-targeted transport policies, such as Delhi's Pink Ticket Scheme, which grants women free bus travel, aim to ease these constraints but may generate unintended consequences at the point of delivery. We study whether free fares lead bus drivers to discriminate against female passengers, raising the effective cost of travel for the very group the policy targets. Descriptive data show that buses fail to stop for women roughly 50% more often than for men. Combining a mystery shopper field exercise with a lab-in-the-field experiment with bus drivers and conductors, we causally identify discriminatory non-stopping behavior and decompose its underlying mechanisms, dist...
Food systems have far-reaching impacts that result in public health costs and environmental damage which are not reflected in retail prices, but are borne implicitly by society. True Cost Accounting has emerged as a framework for making these costs visible, and is increasingly invoked to justify food policies that mitigate and internalize the public health and environmental health costs in food prices. Yet operationalization of true cost food policies to date has focused almost entirely on consumers- on true-cost labels and true pricing at the point of purchase - while a central element of its proposed theory of change remains untested: whether communicating these costs to the public affects support for the policy instruments that would mitigate and internalize the true cost of food in ...
We introduce Emotional Style dimensions and examine whether they are consistent with the quality margin of human capital described by Manuelli and Seshadri (2014), using two strategies. A cross-sectional Mincer wage equation with Emotional Style dimensions reveals a significant positive association between the Attention dimension and wages. Using this production technology, we show that resulting gains in Emotional Styles and research progress, documented in a randomized controlled trial, are theoretically consistent with career-long compounding rather than a one-time effect. Together, these findings are consistent with the hypothesis that Emotional Style dimensions may represent one component of the quality margin in human capital, associated with wages and trainable.
We conduct a randomized survey experiment among undergraduate students to study whether information about labor-market outcomes affects intended college major choices. Respondents first report beliefs about labor-market outcomes and their probability of graduating with a major in STEM, Business, or Economics (STEM/BE). They are then randomly assigned with equal probability to receive information about: (i) workplace experiences of recent graduates or (ii) college enrollment rates by gender, which serves as the control condition. We test whether the workplace-experience treatment affects intentions to major in STEM/BE relative to the control condition, namely by student gender, and how it depends on the difference between respondents' priors and the information given to them.
This project studies whether factual information about income inequality in Croatia affects public preferences for redistribution and preference for smaller income differences. We conduct a randomized online survey experiment with a planned final sample of 1000 valid completed respondents aged 18-65 in Croatia. Respondents are randomly assigned to receive factual information about the income distribution in Croatia or to a control condition. The main outcomes measure post-treatment inequality concern, support for government responsibility in reducing income differences, progressive income taxation, and social benefits for low-income people. The study estimates the average treatment effect of the information treatment, using assignment to treatment as the source of experimental variation...
This study evaluates whether access to Google Gemini Notebook, an AI-powered study tool available to ASU students, helps undergraduate students build more effective study habits and improve academic performance, and whether the tool is more effective when paired with personalized guidance about evidence-based study practices. The study is a three-arm randomized controlled trial among undergraduate students enrolled in targeted intermediate economics and business courses at Arizona State University. Consenting students complete a baseline survey after the first course exam and are randomly assigned to: (1) a control group receiving the standard course experience and neutral study-related contact; (2) a Gemini Notebook-only group receiving access-oriented guidance, including an introducto...