Information about the recent enactment of antiabortion laws and the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and college students' perceived sense of discrimination and fair treatment

Last registered on September 15, 2023
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Information about the recent enactment of antiabortion laws and the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and college students' perceived sense of discrimination and fair treatment
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0012105
Initial registration date
September 13, 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
September 15, 2023, 9:02 AM EDT

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

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Primary Investigator

Name
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas
Affiliation
CUNY
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2023-04-25
End date
2024-09-30
Keywords
Education, Gender
Additional Keywords
State and federal abortion restrictions, gender, perceived discrimination and fairness, and societal cohesion.
JEL code(s)
J15, J16, I, 18, K36
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial is based on or builds upon one or more prior RCTs.
Abstract
Using an online survey of urban college students during spring 2023, we study how exogenous variation in the receipt of information on the restriction of abortion rights by State lawmakers and the US Supreme Court affects students’ perceived sense of discrimination and fair treatment in the US. We use randomized information treatment that provides information about the enactment of antiabortion laws and the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and analyze changes in the perceived societal cohesion of treated students relative to an untreated control group. Since the restriction of abortion rights is likely to directly impact more women than men, we expect a differential gender impact.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria. 2023. "Information about the recent enactment of antiabortion laws and the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and college students' perceived sense of discrimination and fair treatment." AEA RCT Registry. September 15. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.12105-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
We randomized students to either receive or not receive information about the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe versus Wade in June of 2022 and subsequently asked them to agree or disagree with statements regarding fairness, and discrimination in the US.
Intervention Start Date
2023-04-25
Intervention End Date
2023-06-21

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Summary index of Societal Cohesion in the US (level of discrimination, fairness) measured as the share who strongly disagree with statements of societal cohesion, as the share who disagree with statements of societal cohesion, and as a continuous variable.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
One-third of the survey respondents were randomly assigned to the treatment group and given the prompt about the recent state and federal restrictions on abortion rights. The other third was a control group. A final third was given a placebo prompt.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Randomization done in the office by a computer
Randomization Unit
individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
1200 students
Sample size: planned number of observations
Uncertain. At least 1200 total.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
320 treated students, 374 control students, 343 placebo students.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
CUNY University Integrated Institutional Review Board
IRB Approval Date
2023-03-28
IRB Approval Number
2020-0475-QC
Analysis Plan