AEA RCT Registry currently lists 11820 studies with locations in 170 countries.
As countries transition toward energy systems with higher penetration of renewable generation, balancing supply and demand is becoming increasingly complex. Demand flexibility provides a mechanism for customers to respond to system conditions by lowering peak demand and reducing grid congestion, thereby reducing reliance on carbon-intensive generators. We test the effectiveness of this mechanism by conducting a large randomized controlled trial in Spain to evaluate how behavioral and financial incentives can motivate households to reduce electricity consumption during periods of grid stress (“Saving Sessions”). With a sample of 108,163 residential customers, we will assess the effectiveness of several behavioral and financial incentives in shifting short-term household demand during eve...
India ranks at or near the bottom in measures of school management quality (Bloom et al 2015, Lemos et al 2021). In 2020, India adopted a National Education Policy (NEP) mandating 50 annual hours of continuous professional development (CPD) for school leaders. We evaluate an RCT of a school leadership development program for public secondary schools in Karnataka, India. The program aims to improve student learning and engagement by training school leaders to implement School Improvement (SI) plans in three areas: 1) student learning, via remedial classes in math and language; 2) student engagement, by promoting student inclusion and leadership through school clubs and participation in daily morning assembly; and 3) parent engagement, by increasing participation in parent-teacher meeting...
A growing body of research, pioneered by Dana et al. (2007), has documented the prevalence of strategic ignorance in social decisions (e.g., Matthey and Regner 2011; Grossman 2014; van der Weele 2014; Feiler 2014; Exley 2016; Grossman and van der Weele 2017; Momsen and Ohndorf 2020, 2023; Serra-Garcia and Szech 2021): although people frequently incur a private cost to bring about some social benefit under conditions of full information, when the social benefit is uncertain, a surprisingly large number of people avoid easy opportunities to resolve this uncertainty and revert to selfish behavior. Although ignorance may stem from confusion or lack of interest, some individuals avoid information for strategic reasons, such as maintaining positive self - or social image (Nyborg 2011, Grossm...
This study pursues both empirical and methodological objectives. On the empirical side, it builds on Hirschman’s (1970) exit–voice framework to examine how employed individuals evaluate core employment conditions and how these evaluations translate into two distinct responses to dissatisfaction: exit, defined as willingness to change positions, and voice, defined as willingness to participate in industrial action. The design allows the analysis to move beyond preference measurement by linking workers’ evaluations of job attributes to behavioural intentions across different institutional contexts. On the methodological side, the study contributes to the labour-economics literature on wage–amenity trade-offs and institutional framing in stated-preference experiments, where most preferenc...
Central Asia and the South Caucasus are home to an emerging but still nascent PE/VC ecosystem: a handful of funded high-growth start-ups, a growing set of success stories—and a stark gender gap. Women-owned firms represent 31% of businesses in Kazakhstan, 27% in Armenia, and 22% in Georgia, yet they receive only a fraction of early-stage finance. In comparable Central and Eastern European markets, all-women founding teams captured just 2% of €2.4 billion in early-stage funding over the past five years, while 91% went to all-male teams. This underinvestment persists despite evidence that women-founded companies outperform male-founded ones by 96% in revenue-to-funding ratios. Women remain dramatically underrepresented in high-growth entrepreneurship worldwide. Social norms restrict acces...
This experiment investigates how the \emph{structure} of evidence accumulation affects disclosure strategies in dynamic voluntary disclosure games. We study both static and dynamic settings in which an informed sender seeks to influence the actions of an uninformed receiver by disclosing verifiable evidence that arrives over time. Theory predicts that early disclosure is strategically harmful for the sender. We test these predictions experimentally and examine whether the mere presence of an intermediate disclosure opportunity affects behavior even when theory predicts it should not.
Out of the 4 billion women across the globe, each day approximately 800 million women are menstruating. Insufficient access to menstrual hygiene management facilities affects about 500 million women worldwide. During menstruation, this lack of hygienic facilities can cause several interruptions such as missing school or work and non-participation in social activities among various others. Thereby, menstrual hygiene management has significant effects on women’s economic activities. However, there is a paucity of rigorous evidence on the link between menstrual hygiene and women’s economic outcomes. We study the effects of menstrual hygiene management on health and labour market outcomes. By improving women's menstrual hygiene management practices through various interventions, it may be p...
In this study, we examine whether and how introducing greater diversity of viewpoints through machine can improve the wisdom of crowds on an investor-oriented social media. Prior research shows that aggregate opinions extracted from social media posts can predict firm-level earnings surprises and announcement returns. However, user behavior on social media is often shaped by platform-specific biases, such as echo chambers and the spread of misinformation. This project addresses these concerns by using AI-generated, standardized supporting, dissenting, and neutral comments to introduce structured opinion diversity into investor discussions. We expect this intervention to improve how investors process information on social media, strengthen the predictive power of social media signals for...
We aim to understand what drives individual overplacement when participants are asked questions about their ability or intelligence. Our main hypothesis is that overplacement is driven by a desire to not perceive oneself in the very bottom of the distribution (lowest quartile), rather than a desire to place oneself at the very top of the distribution (highest quartile). To test this hypothesis we will compare participants’ beliefs when asked to place themselves in two cases: below or above median (Median condition), and in one of four quartiles of the distribution (Q1-Q4, Quartiles condition). We also hypothesize that there will be a difference by gender, according to which men will display a stronger desire to avoid the bottom quartile than women. The study will consider two domains, a...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent history, with millions of Ukrainians seeking safety abroad. Their decisions on whether to return are crucial for Ukraine’s recovery and long-term prospects. While previous literature has largely focused on safety and security guarantees, less is known about the role of specific post-conflict reconstruction measures. Safety is a necessary condition for large-scale repatriation, but it is not sufficient. Once the fighting ends, refugees face complex economic and social trade-offs regarding where to rebuild their lives. Hence, studying how specific origin country policies affect return to post-war Ukraine can deliver new insights on how governments can shape return migration beyond the ce...