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A rural-urban digital divide persists in the United States, despite significant efforts and successes in closing the gap, exacerbating uneven access to education, employment, healthcare, and innovation. As artificial intelligence (AI) has become a larger factor in our daily lives, this digital divide has spilled over into a rural-urban AI-divide, with urban adults of working age using AI at twice the rate of their rural counterparts. But the AI-divide may not be fully explained by differential access. This work uses an experimental design with random assignment to identify motivational aspects of the rural-urban AI-divide. In the study, participants engage in two rounds of an online task. In the first round, participants learn how to use a Caesar cipher to encode a word. In the second r...
A significant share of households in low-income urban areas access electricity from shared meters, which may result in suboptimal electricity use. However, this issue has received little attention from academics and policymakers. While electricity meter sharing may reduce the fixed connection costs, it can contribute to reduced energy efficiency, create agency problems between landlords and tenants (due to imperfect information on different households’ electricity consumption), leading to social conflict (mediated by asymmetries in bargaining power and knowledge), and undermining confidence in service provision by the utility. More specifically, three potential problems arise from meter sharing. First, households may pay significantly below or above their actual consumption, triggering...
The regular provision of unconditional cash transfers to individuals is a tactic to fight poverty that has attracted significant interest from researchers and policymakers. Despite this interest, many fundamental questions about the effects of receiving sustained unconditional cash transfers remain. In this randomized controlled trial, 1,000 individuals will receive $1,000 per month for 3 years. A control group of 2,000 individuals who receive $50 per month will serve as the comparison group. The study offers an opportunity to inform both the debate over unconditional cash assistance and other questions about the effects of income that typically elude causal identification.
This pilot survey experiment seeks to replicate and extend Conklin (2020) by examining whether calling a complainant a “victim,” rather than a “complaining witness,” affects how people evaluate an alleged assault case. Participants will read a brief vignette in which a defendant denies that an assault occurred and claims that the complainant fabricated the accusation. The experiment randomly varies the term used to refer to the complainant (“victim” versus “complaining witness”) and the complainant’s gender in the vignette. After reading the vignette, participants will answer questions about whether they believe the defendant punched the complainant, whether they agree that the complainant is a victim, and other questions about the two parties and their claims. The study is intended to ...
Youth unemployment in Andalucia is among the highest in Europe. By contrast, on the firms' side, there is an unmet demand for workers with tech skills. AprenTIC tests whether intensive, occupation-specific digital skills training can improve the employment prospects and well-being of unemployed young people.
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 ...
Do training interventions designed to strengthen women’s individual and collective efficacy and political participation influence their economic behaviors and outcomes--specifically, their aspirations, entrepreneurial activities, and well-being? What, if any, additive effects do training interventions intended to improve husbands' allyship in women's empowerment and gender equality play? We will answer these questions with a randomized control trial to be implemented in 450 communities (i.e., wards) across three southwestern states of Nigeria (Ogun, Osun, and Oyo) in 2023. In both treatment and control communities, we will recruit previously unaffiliated women to join women’s action committees (WACs) to be trained by ActionAid Nigeria: 1/3 of WACs (control group) will receive basic trai...
We study to what extent including evaluator subjectivity in tournament decisions affects the documented gender gap in competition. We conduct a large-scale, pre-registered online experiment ($n=7310$) in which workers choose between a non-competitive piece rate and a competitive payment scheme whose payout depends on being selected by an incentivised human evaluator. By randomly varying whether the evaluator can observe the worker's gender across a male-stereotyped and a non-stereotyped task, we exogenously induce the scope for anticipated discrimination. In the male-stereotyped task, gender revelation breaks the link between women's objective performance beliefs and their beliefs about being selected: conditional on the subjective probability of having the best signal, moderately confi...
Motivated by declining fertility rates and divergent political attitudes among young women and men, we investigate gender differences in expectations and mental load on future family formation among young adults in Germany. Using survey data from university students, we document gender gaps in fertility expectations, anticipated division of paid and unpaid work, and career planning under expected parenthood. We further examine whether individuals systematically misperceive the attitudes and expectations of the opposite gender. In a survey experiment, participants receive information about the reported attitudes of opposite-gender peers, allowing us to study whether correcting such misperceptions leads to belief updating and changes in expectations and intended behavior.
This study examines whether providing information can help students make more effective subject-portfolio choices under China's New Gaokao reform, which replaces two broad tracks with a larger set of subject combinations tied to college-major eligibility. In a field experiment with high-school students in a rural county in Fujian Province, students were randomly assigned to receive one of several types of information about their subject-portfolio option - covering admission coverage, academic difficulty and major eligibility, or expected wages—or to a status-quo academic-planning condition. The study measures how information affects students' stated subject-portfolio preferences, including whether they revise their choices, which dimensions of the choice they adjust, and the internal co...