AEA RCT Registry currently lists 12514 studies with locations in 171 countries.
This study evaluates the impact of a personalized digital literacy program, on early literacy skills in children. The program aims to enhance school readiness by providing tailored, interactive exercises in phonics, word recognition, and reading comprehension. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial with 105 schools. Schools will be randomly divided into three groups with different intensity of the intervention. We will assess the effects of the intervention on language development.
This study examines how information about a peer's investment outcomes affects individual investment decisions among Indian business students in a portfolio allocation setting. Participants are randomly assigned to one of four conditions that vary the information they receive about a peer's prior investment performance and the context surrounding that performance. We study whether learning about a peer's high investment outcome shifts a participant's own willingness to take on financial risk, and whether this response depends on what the favorable outcome is attributed to. We also examine whether a brief reflective exercise about one's own investment goals before decision-making moderates any such effect. Incentivised measures of risk aversion and loss aversion are collected to explore ...
We investigate how leaders' gender affects group members' willingness to contribute their ideas and their performance in a series of real-effort tasks using a randomised online experiment. Participants will be assigned to groups of three with one leader and two group members, with each group member responsible for completing a series of tasks and reporting their willingness to answer for the group in each real-effort task. First, we will examine whether participants' willingness to answer for the group is affected by their leader's gender. Second, we will examine whether the quality of their answers is affected by their leader's gender. Third, we are interested in the quality gaps across treatments at different levels of willingness. Finally, we will examine whether participants' conf...
Technological change has always been a very debated topic in economics. How Keynes described a future with less work in his letter to his grandchildren has been the object of many controversies over time. We are now experiencing a new wave of technological change, the so-called Robotization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution, with likely stark consequences on productivity and the labour market. Several studies have delved into the effects of automation and, more recently, artificial intelligence (AI) on the labor market, with findings suggesting a decrease in jobs, especially for low-skilled individuals due to automation, and a wider spectrum of job displacement potential with AI. However, the impact of these changes on attitudes towards technological advancements and polit...
This study evaluates a restorative practices (RP) intervention designed to reduce peer violence in schools in Bogota. A total of 240 classrooms—120 treatment and 120 control— grades 7-9 currently experiencing conflictive situations will participate. The intervention comprises structured sessions facilitated by trained professionals focusing on strengthening socio-emotional skills for assertive conflict management (self-awareness, empathy, decision-making), rooted on restorative practices principles. Random assignment occurs at the school-classroom level, and outcomes are measured using administrative data and follow-up surveys (N=30 students per classroom, on average). The study will test the impact of the intervention on peer violence, students’ psychosocial well-being, class social co...
Experiment E is part of a broader study of contingency neglect: the possibility that people make different risky choices when equivalent probabilities are represented as unconditional outcomes or nested conditional events. The broader study examines this mechanism in employee goal-reward choices and prescription-drug insurance; Experiment E extends it to low-probability homeowners insurance, where it may contribute to overinsurance. Participants choose among three insurance plans under one of three equivalent probability displays. We examine whether the displays change overinsurance choosing the Medium or Premium Plan rather than the Basic Plan and how post-choice probability estimates relate to choice.
This study evaluates the impact of an AI-powered agricultural advisory chatbot, Farmer.Chat, developed by Digital Green to enhance knowledge, technology adoption, productivity, and income among smallholder farmers in Kenya. Traditional agricultural extension systems in many low- and middle-income countries face persistent capacity and reach constraints, leaving farmers with limited access to timely, tailored information. Digital advisory tools have begun to bridge this gap, yet rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of AI-enabled solutions remains limited. We will implement a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 600 villages in Nakuru County, Kenya, to assess the causal effects of access to Farmer.Chat on farmers’ knowledge, uptake of recommended agronomic practices, yields, and...
We employ people with varying levels of depression and anxiety symptoms for six weeks to study links between mental health, productivity and workplace design. We provide evidence on how mental health correlates with performance in different types of task, selection into more challenging, social and/or promotable work, and assertiveness; and on how it may interact with features of workplace design such as negotiation, incentives, and how feedback is provided. We estimate how a randomized work-related cognitive behavioural therapy intervention affects mental health and the same range of economic outcomes and interactions.
This is a randomized-controlled trial in the UK of the impact of Eedi, a math tutoring platform, on the mathematics achievement of Key Stage 3 students (Years 7-9). This project was funded through the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI), with support from J-PAL North America.
In contrast to almost half of the world’s female population that is working, only about 25 percent of India’s half a billion adult females report being part of the labor force (United Nations 2013 and India’s Periodic Labor Force Survey 2017, respectively). This low rate of Indian women's labor market participation is puzzling for a country that has experienced rapid fertility transition (World Bank, various years) and broad increases in women’s educational attainment (Census of India 2001 and 2011), along with substantial economic growth since the 1990s. Instead, these changes have been accompanied by a consistently low share of women working in urban areas (Klasen and Pieters 2015) and a real reduction in the share of women working in rural areas, between 1987 and 2011 (Afridi, Dink...