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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Describe your experimental designs. The field will be public as soon as the trial is registered. Limit this description to those aspects of your trial that you want to have public before the trial is over.
This study uses a multi-day online experiment in which participants choose daily between a work option and a leisure option. Participants are recruited through the smartphone app Liseli Decision Lab in Zambia and are randomly assigned to one of two treatments.
During the initial part of the study, participants in both treatments can freely choose between the work and leisure options. The key treatment difference occurs after the first four days: in the Control treatment, choices are always implemented as selected, whereas in the Rejection treatment, choices of the work option are frequently not implemented, resulting in participants being assigned to the leisure option instead. Participants' choices during this phase can be analysed and compared between the treatments.
Toward the end of the study, choices are again fully implemented in both treatments, making it possible to analyse whether repeated restrictions on access to work have lasting effects on participants' willingness to choose the work option after the restriction falls. Additionally, participants complete questionnaires measuring motivation, learned helplessness, and habit formation to help identify mechanisms underlying these effects.
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After
This study uses a multi-day online experiment in which participants choose daily between a work option and a leisure option. Participants are recruited through the smartphone app Liseli Decision Lab in Zambia and are randomly assigned to one of two treatments.
During the initial part of the study, participants in both treatments can freely choose between the work and leisure options. The key treatment difference occurs after the first four days: in the Control treatment, choices are always implemented as selected, whereas in the Rejection treatment, choices of the work option are frequently not implemented, resulting in participants being assigned to the leisure option instead. Participants' choices during this phase can be analysed and compared between the treatments.
Toward the end of the study, choices are again fully implemented in both treatments, making it possible to analyse whether repeated restrictions on access to work have lasting effects on participants' willingness to choose the work option after the restriction falls. Additionally, participants complete questionnaires measuring motivation, learned helplessness, and habit formation to help identify mechanisms underlying these effects.
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