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Abstract	This is a randomized controlled trail (RCT) that randomizes middle school students to watch one of the video-recorded interviews with two role models. Growing literature has focused on the role model impacts and the underlying mechanisms. The aim of this RCT is to study the marginal effects of different content shared by the role models, or the marginal effects of disclosing information about the role models on their role aspirants. Besides student test scores, this study collects student beliefs about gender and ability, their aspirations, behaviors (efforts spent on study, school absence, confidence of achieving goals), subjective well-being. This study also invite students' parents and head teachers to participate in a baseline survey. Therefore, this study aims to explore the changes in mechanisms due to different content shared by role models or different information revealed about role models.	This randomized controlled trial (RCT) randomizes middle school students to watch one of the video-recorded interviews with two role models. A growing body of literature has focused on the impact of role models and their underlying mechanisms. The aim of this RCT is to study the marginal effects of different content shared by the role models or the marginal effects of disclosing information about the role models on their role aspirants. Besides student test scores, this study collects student beliefs about gender and ability, aspirations, behaviors (efforts spent on study, school absence, confidence in achieving goals), and subjective well-being. This study also invites students' parents and head teachers to participate in a baseline survey. Therefore, this study aims to explore the changes in mechanisms due to different content shared by role models, or different information revealed about role models.
Last Published	January 31, 2024 01:33 PM	August 22, 2024 10:57 PM
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		100 classes (49 classes in Group1, and 51 classes in Group2)
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations		4792 students (1990 students in Group1, 2802 students in Group2)
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms		Group1: 13 classes control, 12 classes very successful+backgrounds role models, 12 classes very successful role models, 12 classes moderately successful+backgrounds role models. Group2: 9 classes control, 14 classes Attitude role models, 14 classes Behavior role models, 14 classes Complete (Attitude+Behavior) role models.
Intervention (Public)	The classes of the first group (Group1) of recruited schools are randomized to either one of the three treatment arms or one control arm: - Very successful+background similarities role models, - Very successful role models, - Moderately successful role models, - Control: a non-academic class meeting. The classes of the second group (Group2) of recruited schools are randomized to either one of the three treatment arms or one control arm: - Complete (Attitude+Behavior) role models, - Attitude role models, - Behavior role models, - Control: a non-academic class meeting.	The classes of the first group (Group1) of recruited schools are randomized to either one of the three treatment arms or one control arm: - Very successful+background similarities role models, - Very successful role models, - Moderately successful+background similarities role models, - Control: a non-academic class meeting. The classes of the second group (Group2) of recruited schools are randomized to either one of the three treatment arms or one control arm: - Complete (Attitude+Behavior) role models, - Attitude role models, - Behavior role models, - Control: a non-academic class meeting.
Planned Number of Observations	4792 students (1990 students in Group1, 2802 students in Group2)	4800 students (2000 students in Group1, 2800 students in Group2)
Keyword(s)	Behavior, Education, Gender	Behavior, Education, Gender, Welfare
Public locations	No	Yes