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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...
This study examines whether the effects of the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center preschool on cognitive skill outcomes during elementary school are affected by exposure to classmates (during elementary school) who also attended the preschool.
Governments increasingly rely on external consultants for expertise that was once provided within the bureaucracy. This study examines how citizens evaluate alternative ways of organizing public sector capacity, focusing on their views on civil servants and external consultants. I conduct an online survey in which respondents report their support for in-house versus external provision of government expertise, information experiments, as well as a discrete-choice experiment comparing alternative policies. The survey also uses an AI-based interview module to elicit respondents’ reasoning about these choices. I combine these measures with data on demographics, political attitudes, trust in government, and views of the private sector to study what correlates with public support for differen...
We study how an intervention that teaches and encourages Instagram users to curate their own feed affects their content consumption, well-being, political attitudes, and gender norms. The study is a two-wave, individually randomized controlled trial with active Instagram users aged 18 to 35 from the United States (US). In the baseline wave, participants complete a survey and share data on their Instagram content; a randomly assigned treatment group is then shown how to use two built-in curation tools. Roughly six weeks later, an endline wave re-measures the same outcomes, measures further outcomes, and collects the same data on consumed content. We estimate intention-to-treat effects with baseline covariate adjustments and local average treatment effects using random assignment as an in...
Investment in childcare is essential for poverty reduction as it improves children's cognitive and social skills, which can later translate into better performance at school and income earning potential. The adequate provision of childcare can also increase women’s employment and productivity, create new jobs and drive economic growth. In order to maximize both child development and female labor force participation, governments play a crucial role. They can help ensure that quality childcare is available, affordable, and meets the needs of all families, particularly the most vulnerable. The public childcare service in the Dominican Republic is based on a comprehensive centre-based model: children from three months to five years of age in target areas are enrolled in daycare centres w...
Centralized university admissions systems often ask applicants to submit rank-order lists, but applicants may have limited information about how these lists are processed. Even in systems that use strategy-proof mechanisms such as deferred acceptance (DA), applicants may observe admission thresholds and relative program competitiveness without understanding whether it is safe to rank ambitious options first. This experiment studies how participants report preferences in opaque settings, how historical threshold information and transparent DA guidance affect their reports, and how alternative assignment rules perform when applied to the resulting behavior. The experiment uses a neutral prize-allocation setting that preserves the main strategic features of centralized admissions while ...
Fish-farming is growing worldwide, especially in developing countries, where it is becoming an alternative source of protein comparable to cattle rearing. Fish farming is also expanding in the Brazilian Amazon, where cattle rearing remains the main usage of already deforested land. Nevertheless, in such region, many barriers prevent fish-farming from becoming comparable to cattle in terms of farm profit and protein supply. The main barriers being the high market risk, due to a still incipient regional/national market, the lack of skilled labour, and the scale economy implied together with lacking credit access. Upon this background, we ask two research questions, having as our target subject the average Rondônia farmer with minimal fish-farming knowledge. First, what is the willingness ...