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Autistic children often experience heightened anxiety due to sensory sensitivities, social challenges, and difficulties with change. While Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for anxiety, access remains limited—particularly in low-resource settings—due to shortages of trained therapists. Parent-led CBT, in which therapists guide parents to support their children, offers an effective and resource-efficient alternative. The Online Support and Intervention for Child Anxiety (OSI) programme was developed to improve access to CBT through structured and interactive digital content, with parents leading the implementation of therapeutic strategies. OSI has been successfully evaluated in schools and clinical services in the United Kingdom and has demonstrated out...
Salience and rational inattention are two established channels through which people allocate attention, while which one dominates depends on the choice environment. We plan to conduct an online experiment to study the drivers of investors’ attention allocation in a mutual fund choice task where participants allocate a fixed endowment between two funds. Our information-display design allows fund choices to reveal whether attention is guided by salient cues or by decision-relevant information. Potential manipulations include time constraints (short vs. long), the format of the timer (eye-catching vs. standard), and the incentive size (high vs. low), with participants completing multiple rounds of fund allocation tasks to capture the role of learning. Our findings will inform disclosure an...
This study investigates the determinants of successful outbound business development transactions in China’s biopharmaceutical industry. It combines transaction data from Pharmcube, firm information from Cyzone, and an experimental survey of senior executives. The observational analysis examines how pipeline maturity, asset differentiation, intellectual property strength, venture capital backing, and CEO experience relate to license-out occurrence, deal value, and contractual scope. The survey experiment randomly exposes executives to neutral information, information about Chinese firms’ financing and global-development constraints, or information about rising demand from multinational pharmaceutical companies. It then measures changes in beliefs about the license-out boom and planned a...
This paper studies a neglected form of labor-market discrimination: vertical upward discrimination. Using a field experiment, we measure the cost of discrimination over managers. Applicants choose between two otherwise identical manager-linked openings with randomly assigned salary gaps. By varying manager race and nationality across three pairwise comparisons, the design recovers the monetary value workers attach to manager identity and tests whether the local–foreign penalty is additively explained by race and nationality. We also collect pre-reveal expected-salary and job-belief measures to interpret whether the revealed authority price aligns with expected pay, perceived career opportunities, or residual preferences over authority identity. These measures are secondary and are not r...
Rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have sparked public debate regarding its impact on labor markets, inequality, and social mobility. The goal of this study is to understand whether economic literacy affects people's attitudes, beliefs, and policy preferences regarding those topics.
This study estimates medical students’ preferences for job attributes and their willingness to pay (WTP) for different job characteristics as they approach the labor market. We further examine whether and how peer-comparison information about altruism causally shifts these preferences. We measure social preferences with an incentivized task and elicit job-attribute preferences through a hypothetical discrete choice experiment. We first document how beliefs about one's own social preferences relate to job preferences. We then randomly provide peer-comparison feedback to test how updating beliefs—about both the population distribution of altruism and one's own rank within it—affects WTP.
Career guidance is one of the few scalable tools that targets the information frictions behind occupational mismatch in low- and middle-income countries, yet its welfare value depends on whether it works by informing jobseekers or by persuading them to act. We run a randomized controlled trial with about 4,000 jobseekers in coastal Kenya that compares human-only, AI-only, and hybrid AI-plus-human career guidance, and cross-randomizes whether AI support stops at a recommendation or adds persuasion and action support. Primary outcomes are employment and earnings, match quality, and persistence; we anchor short-run measures to long-run welfare with a surrogate index estimated in external panel data. The design uses AI as a research instrument, fixing the informativeness of advice and the s...
Micro-enterprises account for a large share of employment and value added, yet their behavioral responses to taxation are poorly understood. Existing evidence focuses mainly on large firms’ ex post responses observed in administrative data, while much less is known about intended behavioral adjustments, especially among very small firms with limited managerial capacity and tax literacy. Moreover, existing studies (e.g., Kennedy et al., 2024; Duan and Moon, 2025; Giroud and Rauh, 2019; Risch, 2024; Suarez Serrato and Zidar, 2016) largely focus on one or few margins of adjustment to a change in tax burden (e.g., consider only effects on consumer prices), disregarding other contemporaneous strategic reactions (e.g., investments, labor costs). This study aims to elicit how micro-entrepren...
We evaluate to what extent an edutainment intervention delivered through a mobile cinema in pastoral communities from seven ethnic groups in northern Kenya mitigates inter-group livestock raiding and theft. We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of a 14-minute animated film promoting skills-based jobs for young men as complementary livelihood to herding, promoting grazing and restitution agreements, and highlighting the consequences of raiding and theft for women. The film is followed by a structured and standardized post-screening discussion. 130 communities were randomly assigned to receive the edutainment intervention and 116 were not. We study effects on the likelihood of raiding and theft and animal losses and loss of human life due to raiding and theft as primary outcomes. ...
Since the onset of the Syrian conflict, women have faced heightened risks of gender-based violence (GBV), particularly intimate partner violence (IPV). To address these risks and prevent IPV, in Phase 1 of the Building Local Resilience in Syria Initiative (BLRS), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), piloted a combined economic and social empowerment intervention delivered through FAO’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Homs and Rural Damascus. This intervention integrated agro-processing vouchers with the Economic and Social Empowerment (EA$E) curriculum targeting couples. While the pilot demonstrated reductions in women’s reported experiences of economic and emotional IPV and improvements in joint decision-making, it s...