Costly implementation of third party preferences with non-paternalistic motivation

Last registered on June 23, 2017
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Costly implementation of third party preferences with non-paternalistic motivation
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0002240
Initial registration date
May 24, 2017

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
May 24, 2017, 2:49 PM EDT

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

Last updated
June 23, 2017, 1:04 PM EDT

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Country
Norway
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Xianwen Chen
Affiliation
Department of Landscape Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Øivind Schøyen
PI Affiliation
The Choice Lab, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2017-06-24
End date
2017-06-27
Keywords
Electoral, Welfare
Additional Keywords
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Abstract
In an experimental setting, we plan to test whether spectators have a willingness to pay to have an income distribution adhering to their fairness views implemented upon a pair of workers. Before spectators decide whether to implement their fairness views, we elicit participants' perceived prevalence of their own fairness views to see whether this is correlated with their willingness to implement. In one treatment, spectators are informed about the empirical prevalence of their fairness views among the workers, before their willingness to pay is elicited. We argue that existence of a statistically significant treatment effect would be indicative of non-paternalistic motivation of implementing fairness views.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Chen, Xianwen and Øivind Schøyen. 2017. "Costly implementation of third party preferences with non-paternalistic motivation." AEA RCT Registry. June 23. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.2240-7.0
Former Citation
Chen, Xianwen and Øivind Schøyen. 2017. "Costly implementation of third party preferences with non-paternalistic motivation." AEA RCT Registry. June 23. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2240/history/18907
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention (Hidden)
Intervention Start Date
2017-06-26
Intervention End Date
2017-06-27

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
workers' individual performances, redistribution preference (yes or no to redistribution), projected prevalence of one's own redistribution preference, empirical (actual) prevalence of one's own redistribution preference, decision of whether pay to implement one's own redistribution preference
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
In an experimental setting, we plan to test whether spectators have a willingness to pay to have an income distribution adhering to their fairness views implemented upon a pair of worker. Before spectators decide whether to implement their fairness views, we elicit participants perceived prevalence of their own fairness views to see whether this is correlated with their willingness to implement. In one treatment, spectators are informed about the empirical prevalence of their fairness views among the workers, before their willingness to pay is elicited. We argue that existence of a statistically significant treatment effect would be indicative of non-paternalistic motivation of implementing fairness views.
Experimental Design Details
In an experimental setting, we plan to test whether spectators have a willingness to pay to have an income distribution adhering to their fairness views implemented upon a pair of worker. Before spectators decide whether to implement their fairness views, we elicit participants perceived prevalence of their own fairness views to see whether this is correlated with their willingness to implement. In one treatment, spectators are informed about the empirical prevalence of their fairness views among the workers, before their willingness to pay is elicited. We argue that existence of a statistically significant treatment effect would be indicative of non-paternalistic motivation of implementing fairness views.
Randomization Method
randomization done by a computer program
Randomization Unit
individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
0 culster. We use turks from Amazon MTurk.
Sample size: planned number of observations
1008 participants
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
336 workers, 336 spectators (control), 336 spectators (treatment)
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

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IRB Approval Date
IRB Approval Number
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

Analysis Plan - Chen and Schøyen (2017)

MD5: 7708c277b006fb586e0dac840f4543dc

SHA1: e6991e082324c86b437418ba24ea07cb86c4c966

Uploaded At: June 23, 2017

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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