AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12214 studies with locations in 170 countries.
This study is a survey-based randomized experiment among young adults in Germany who completed their schooling in Baden-Württemberg and belong to birth cohorts from October 2001 to September 2007. It exploits the introduction of the independent school subject “Wirtschaft, Berufs- und Studienorientierung” (WBS), which was implemented across all school types in Baden-Württemberg in the 2016/2017 school year. To this end, a representative sample of selected birth cohorts is drawn and surveyed, allowing for a comparison between individuals in cohorts affected by the curriculum reform and individuals from cohorts who completed schooling before the reform. The study has two main objectives: first, to identify the medium- to longer-term effects of the education reform on financial behavior aft...
The ongoing transformation of the labor market driven by demographic and technological changes has a significant impact on both labor supply and skill demand, potentially resulting in skills mismatches. One way to address this is to continuously invest in human capital throughout one's working life – a concept promoted by policymakers worldwide. However, before designing effective programs, it is important to understand how decisions about on-the-job training are formed. The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of how training decisions are made in German establishments. We develop and test hypotheses on previously underexplored factors that influence both managers' and employees' training investment decisions. In the first part of our project (AEARCTR-0016440), we ...
We study how informational advantage (cheap talk) and narrative persuasion interact in the same experimental setting. In an inference task, receivers observe a dataset and make predictions after receiving a message from a sender who may have additional information and who communicates either through a simple recommendation or an elaborate narrative explanation. By varying the sender’s information and communication mode, we isolate the effects of new information versus new interpretation. We examine how the effects of these message types differ based on whether the senders and receivers have aligned or misaligned preferences. This allows us to test predictions from models of strategic information transmission and competing narratives, and to assess when persuasion works through informati...
We study how monetary policy transmits to firms' beliefs, expectations, and plans and how this transmission is shaped by the preferences of firm executives. We do so via a customized survey among firms in the Netherlands that allows us to apply both event study and RCT methods.
This study examines whether brief, structured exposure to present- or future-oriented thinking shapes feelings of hope and hopelessness among women entrepreneurs in Haiti, and whether hope and hopelessness in turn affect their resilience, willingness to act, and intention to keep pursuing their business goals. Participants are women entrepreneurs enrolled in a women's entrepreneurship training program in Haiti. The study embeds a randomized experiment within a two-module training program. All participants receive the first module, a financial literacy and management session with no temporal framing. Participants are then randomly assigned to one of three conditions for the second module, a session on women's leadership and climate resilience: (1) a version framed around their current...
There is ample evidence of low contraceptive uptake and unmet need for family planning by mentally vulnerable individuals. At the same time, avoiding unwanted pregnancies for this group may be especially important to improve their (mental) well-being, autonomy and self-reliance. Impacts of large-scale family planning counselling programs specifically targeted at vulnerable groups with mental health issues in high-income countries are understudied. I study the effects of a national family planning support program in the Netherlands that integrates tailored family planning counselling in existing systems for the provision of mental and physical healthcare as well as targeted social care for vulnerable youth and adults. I study the program's impacts on its intended outcomes: contraceptive ...
This laboratory experiment investigates the empirical robustness of dynamic solution concepts when the assumption of common belief in rationality is relaxed. Using the framework of Approximate Common Beliefs in Rationality (ACBR), we test the result that we establish a theoretical equivalence between static rationalizability and dynamic p-rationalizability, regardless how dynamic rationality is defined. This implies that even the slightest doubt about others' rationality (p<1) renders dynamic reasoning essentially static. We implement a within-subject design using a battery of games where Subgame Perfect Equilibrium (SPNE) and our concept of Approximate Equilibrium provide diverging predictions. Specifically, we introduce a version of the game in Figure 4 of Reny (1992), where these ...
The objective of this study is to better understand the job market and job search considerations of college educated, urban Indian youth. Secondary panel data following unemployed, job-seeking, college educated youth, increasing rates of labour-market exit over time, particularly among female graduates. This paper aims to investigate this trend further using exploratory and experimental empirical methods. Surveying over two thousand college students and recent graduates in Mumbai India, the study collects descriptive data on education and employment history, job search activities, aspirations, job preferences, job market beliefs and expectations, norms and attitudes, marriage market activities, socio-economic and demographic details. The experimental part of the survey will be two c...
This study evaluates the impact of the World Health Organization’s Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) intervention among 10-15-year-old adolescents in poverty contexts in Ethiopia. The intervention will be implemented within Compassion International’s child development program with treatment randomized at the site level. 25 adolescents at each of the 70 sites have been identified by program staff as having the target selection criteria of heightened internalizing challenges resulting in a total of 1,750 study participants. Half of the sites will be randomly assigned to receive the EASE intervention, and the other half will serve as control sites. As a result, approximately 875 adolescents will participate in the EASE intervention during the study period. The study includes ...
Shifting dietary patterns toward more plant-based diets is widely recognized as a key lever for reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption. Yet, despite rapid market growth, the adoption of plant-based meat substitutes (PBMS) remains limited, partly due to the habitual and experience-driven nature of everyday food purchasing behavior. This preregistration describes a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in collaboration with one of Switzerland's largest grocery retailers, examining the independent and joint causal effects of two intervention components on real-world food purchasing behavior: (1) an information treatment designed to increase consumer awareness of the Eco-Score sustainability label as a decision aid, including an illustrative comparison between a conv...