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In rural Pakistan, women are legally entitled to inherit agricultural land but are frequently excluded from exercising these rights due to social norms, information constraints, and procedural barriers. While recent land-record digitization reforms increased women’s likelihood of being recorded as heirs, most female heirs remain joint co-owners without individually demarcated parcels. The Government of Punjab seeks to address this gap by supporting voluntary land partition and conducting government-led information sessions. Using a randomized controlled trial in Punjab, Pakistan,this study evaluates whether targeted outreach can improve women’s awareness, engagement, and participation in the land-partitioning process.
This study examines whether Dutch respondents hold inaccurate factual beliefs about nuclear energy and whether corrective factual information reduces these misperceptions. Respondents are randomly assigned to either a control text or a treatment text addressing common misconceptions about nuclear energy. The study measures factual beliefs, risk perceptions, support for nuclear expansion, and willingness to accept a nearby nuclear facility before and after the information intervention. The primary analysis compares pre-post changes in factual belief accuracy between treatment and control respondents.
Punishment is commonly used by lawmakers to deter criminal behavior. Punishments do not just punish offenders, but they also deter other people from committing the same crimes. In monitoring and investigating crimes, the inside knowledge or tips provided by private citizens who have knowledge of the crime offer valuable information to the authority. However, it is unclear about the relationship between the severity of punishment and likelihood of reporting crimes. In this study, we examine whether the severity of sanctions will affect people’s decision to report crimes, and how this decision is affected by the relative magnitude of harm and good.
This study seeks to understand how intermediaries in the Medicare market advise clients and make Medicare plan recommendations. We also evaluate how intermediaries respond to different consumer cues and measure broker beliefs about how much consumers value different Medicare plan attributes. The results inform a broader study of how intermediaries shape Medicare plan choice.
Municipalities frequently rely on upper-level government grants to finance local public investments, yet many eligible grants remain unused. This paper examines how administrative complexity in grant design affects grant application and investment decisions. Using a conjoint experiment with mayors, we exogenously vary key features of grant programs -- such as documentation requirements, discretion in fund use, and co-financing rates -- as well as investment characteristics. We analyze how administrative features reduce the likelihood of mayors' preference to support a public investment project, and investigate the underlying mechanisms by which complexity generates costs. We examine how urgency of a project and expected popularity of the project among the electorate influence the cost o...
Bogotá’s Atenea platform centrally assigns applicants to publicly funded higher-education programs: a placement provides tuition-free access, so admission chances reflect access to free college and major options. Each year tens of thousands of applicants rank up to three programs, yet many eligible applicants are not assigned, and many have application portfolios that contain only high-risk options while omitting feasible alternatives. While this might be optimal behavior, it might be a mistake if applicants are not informed of their admissions chances when constructing their application portfolio. We implement and evaluate a personalized “smart platform” intervention that displays simulated admission probabilities on program pages, portfolio risk warnings before submission, and up ...
This study evaluates whether a low-cost information-clarification intervention can increase initial behavioral responses among households that remain unconnected to the public sewer system in Date City, Fukushima Prefecture. The intervention consists of a sewer connection encouragement leaflet inserted into the municipal newsletter. The leaflet clarifies where households can seek consultation, what they can learn through consultation, and how they can take the first step without committing immediately to construction. The study is implemented as a phased-in cluster-randomized controlled trial. Constructed clusters of administrative aza units are randomly assigned to either a first-wave group receiving the leaflet through the July 2026 municipal newsletter or a second-wave group receivin...
Many young people enrolled in the French aid agencies for employment seeking seem to have difficulties in reaching sustainable social and professional integration despite the availability of services. Among the reasons given for this lack of sustainability for the efforts made towards social integration of young people, two of them return frequently. The first is the existence of financial constraints faced by youth: reflecting the lack of financial autonomy of youth, these constraints can thus lead to undertake investment choices in their professional and education career that are very different from those they would have done in the absence of such constraints. The second is the lack of adherence to the programs these agencies propose. Joining a program for professional and so...
We investigate how partial workload transparency influences distributive preferences using a controlled online Prolific experiment. Participants in the role of allocators decide how to distribute additional workload between a pair of peers (Participant 1 and Participant 2) who are randomly assigned differing initial task endowments. We systematically vary the information for each decision scenario: tasks include both visible (publicly observable to both peers) and hidden domains (private information to the assigned individual), while the allocator observes all domains. Utilizing a within-subject design across 12 distinct scenarios, allocators choose between three options that either equalize total cumulative workloads (by removing the initial endowment inequality), maintain initial work...
An extensive literature indicates that recipients’ characteristics are salient in fostering others’ prosocial behavior. However, early researches remain uninformative about these influences in a general and eastern situation. The current work addresses this ambiguity by specifically exploring whether recipients' beauty, local identity and gender impact receiving help in daily life in China. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to detect such bias. We use lost-resumes and randomly deliver the personal resumes with file bags to shared-bikes in public within cities. A wide range of unpaid passersby might notice and make decisions accordingly. We intervene by modifying the resumes in one's traits: beauty, local identity and gender, and therefore we have eight treatments that are c...