Parental perceptions of girls' and boys' negotiation strategies

Last registered on February 12, 2025
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Parental perceptions of girls' and boys' negotiation strategies
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0015230
Initial registration date
February 06, 2025

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
February 12, 2025, 9:45 AM EST

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

Locations

Country
Norway
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Clémentine VAN EFFENTERRE
Affiliation
University of Toronto
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Siri Isaksson
PI Affiliation
NHH
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PI Name
Sa-Kiera Hudson
PI Affiliation
Berkeley Haas
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PI Name
Ingvild Skarpeid
PI Affiliation
NHH
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2025-02-06
End date
2025-05-31
Keywords
Education, Gender
Additional Keywords
negotiation, skills
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
The purpose of this survey is to better understand how parents view their role in shaping negotiating behaviors in their children.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Hudson, Sa-Kiera et al. 2025. "Parental perceptions of girls' and boys' negotiation strategies." AEA RCT Registry. February 12. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.15230-1.0
Sponsors & Partners

Sponsors

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
The purpose of this survey is to better understand how parents view their role in shaping negotiating behaviors in their children. The findings aim to contribute to a broader understanding of parenting practices and their implications for child development.
Intervention Start Date
2025-02-06
Intervention End Date
2025-05-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Parental perceptions of strategies regarding children's negotiations. Second order beliefs about parental strategies. Parental perceptions of the reasons behind the child’s action
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
To measure perceptions of parental strategies, we will create a dummy variable equal to one if the respondent agrees or strongly agrees with each statement. To measure negotiation strategy, we will create a dummy variable for each negotiation strategy listed. To measure second order beliefs about parental strategies, we will compare the average share of respondents supporting each parental strategy to each respondent’s estimated share of parents’ supporting each strategy, separately by gender of the parent and the child in the scenario. To measure parental perceptions of the reasons behind the child’s action, we will group reasons depending on whether they relate to internal factors (own emotions, impulse) or internal factors (peers, family, school).

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Reported negotiating behaviors of children. Perceptions of appropriate negotiation behaviors and negotiation skills
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
The study opens with a set of vignettes regarding typical negotiation scenarios between parents and children. This part of the study focuses on understanding how parents react to specific challenges, such as negotiating bedtime, responding to requests for rewards, or resolving conflicts about daily routines, where we vary whether the scenario is about a mother/father and a daughter/son.

After each vignette, we elicit second-order beliefs about the child behaviors. We elicit parents' perceptions of how other parents might respond to the vignette they have just seen. We finally elicit subjective beliefs about parenting, assessing parents' long-term aspirations for their children, including the skills they prioritize and the types of activities they encourage. We also collect demographic characteristics.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Computer
Randomization Unit
Respondent.
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
1000 respondents
Sample size: planned number of observations
3000 (3 scenario responses by respondent).
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
250 respondents in each treatment arm (father-son, father-daughter, mother-son, mother-daughter).
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
NHH
IRB Approval Date
2025-01-30
IRB Approval Number
NHH-IRB-2025-69
Analysis Plan

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