New interventions for sexual harassment prevention

Last registered on March 08, 2023

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Trial Information

General Information

Title
New interventions for sexual harassment prevention
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0011000
Initial registration date
February 24, 2023

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
March 08, 2023, 11:57 AM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

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Primary Investigator

Affiliation
University of Oslo

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2023-01-08
End date
2025-03-03
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
We study an intervention against sexual harassment that provides information on attitudes and job performance. We randomize the intervention across small rooms with military recruits in the boot camp of the Norwegian military. Outcome variables include sexual harassment prevalence and attitudes toward voicing disagreement with harassment when it occurs. An extended analysis studies attrition from the training to understand if our interventions can prevent occupational exit among women.

Contribution: Sexual harassment is a severe and prevalent workplace hazard. It is discrimination by law and a form of violence against women. Previous evaluations of the most common prevention policies have shown a lack of efficiency or even counterproductive results. We suggest a new prevention method and test its efficiency with randomized control trials. This produces new actionable knowledge for sexual harassment prevention.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Folke, Olle et al. 2023. "New interventions for sexual harassment prevention." AEA RCT Registry. March 08. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.11000-1.0
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Two types of interventions.
1) Randomized allocation of rooms during boot camp in the Norwegian armed forces.
2) Randomized provision of information A) that women are not, in fact, worse than men when it comes to military competence and B) about other recruits’ negative attitudes toward unwanted jokes of a sexual nature.
Intervention Start Date
2023-01-08
Intervention End Date
2023-02-26

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Our five main outcomes variables and corresponding estimation samples are the following (see the plan for details):
Harassment attitudes. The main sample includes all soldiers answering at endline.
Sexual harassment prevalence of specific treated items from a person in the room. The main sample for this test is restricted to women.
Victim coping. The main sample for this test is restricted to women.
Self-reported bystanding. The main sample includes all soldiers answering at endline .
Co-responsible bystanders. The main sample includes all soldiers answering at endline.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
See plan for details
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
1) Randomized allocation of rooms during boot camp in the Norwegian armed forces.
2) Randomized provision of information A) that women are not, in fact, worse than men when it comes to military competence and B) about other recruits’ negative attitudes toward unwanted jokes of a sexual nature.

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Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
90 Rooms
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
90 rooms
Sample size: planned number of observations
At least 650 recruits
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
45 rooms in treatment and 45 rooms in control.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Minimum Detectable Effect (MDE) size of 0.26 standard deviations
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
The Frisch Centre
IRB Approval Date
2020-01-05
IRB Approval Number
N/A
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

PAP New interventions for sexual harassment prevention.pdf

MD5: cfc1289b9a7ca4bf1f335a9647717d4a

SHA1: 6a1a7b34b1c0cf72a56b7d8d95e3f25bffd1212e

Uploaded At: February 24, 2023