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Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: Representative Evidence

Last registered on June 03, 2019

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: Representative Evidence
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0002273
Initial registration date
June 15, 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
June 16, 2017, 12:52 PM EDT

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

Last updated
June 03, 2019, 11:20 AM EDT

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

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
University of Warwick

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2017-06-15
End date
2017-06-19
Secondary IDs
Abstract
This paper provides representative evidence on people's beliefs about the extent of racial discrimination in the United States and to what extent these beliefs drive support for affirmative action policies. We report evidence from two separate experiments. In the first experiment, we elicit incentivized beliefs about how likely resumes with black-sounding names are to receive a callback for an interview relative to resumes with white-sounding names. We then provide a random subset of our respondents with the true statistic and investigate how this affects support for affirmative action policies. To deal with experimenter demand effects, we perform a second experiment where the key outcome questions are only asked one week later in an obfuscated follow-up study.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Haaland, Ingar and Christopher Roth. 2019. "Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: Representative Evidence." AEA RCT Registry. June 03. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.2273-7.0
Former Citation
Haaland, Ingar and Christopher Roth. 2019. "Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: Representative Evidence." AEA RCT Registry. June 03. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2273/history/47409
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
See analysis plan.
Intervention Start Date
2017-06-15
Intervention End Date
2017-06-16

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
See analysis plan.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
See analysis plan.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer,
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2075 respondents in the main experiment and approximately 1600 in the follow-up survey.
Sample size: planned number of observations
2075
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
1,042 in the control group
1,033 in the treatment group
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Oxford Department’s Research Ethics Committee (DREC)
IRB Approval Date
2017-03-13
IRB Approval Number
ECONCIA17-18-006
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

PAP: different prior elicitations

MD5: e79df477d3e0499c24e509de03de2264

SHA1: e6afd28c408bb33fe53c73a77c41288b02aa5ae8

Uploaded At: June 03, 2019

PAP 4 Racial stereotyps

MD5: 4a42c4559c642df931a9b61cc3812079

SHA1: 54907d2f3f3925d053aaa993abf9f0bd3167bd1e

Uploaded At: October 24, 2018

PAP 3 - Priming Political Identitiy

MD5: 0bde87b95c5c4cb1eb981f100ffed355

SHA1: abe8a958509e901d33894acbb21131d7aa0a664f

Uploaded At: July 17, 2018

Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: PAP for representative evidence

MD5: 31427e8f5ebc7d203c25aab5347ced87

SHA1: 7fe4e6763b7e3f1bdb2299a18c3d6fb55e8c5c9b

Uploaded At: June 30, 2017

PAP: obfuscated follow-up survey

MD5: 832fec02031d337763ffa3a8aa1372e9

SHA1: 244b6a5897888c5bfa95768f3774fd4ee779807d

Uploaded At: June 15, 2017

Post-Trial

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
Reports, Papers & Other Materials

Relevant Paper(s)

Reports & Other Materials