Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.
Last registered on April 21, 2019
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General Information
Title
Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004079
Initial registration date
April 03, 2019
Last updated
April 21, 2019 7:59 PM EDT
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Primary Investigator
Name
Øivind Schøyen
Affiliation
Norwegian School of Economics
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Other Primary Investigator(s)
PI Name
Xianwen Chen
PI Affiliation
Department of Landscape Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
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Additional Trial Information
Status
In development
Start date
2019-04-21
End date
2019-07-31
Keywords
Electoral, Other
Additional Keywords
paternalism, fairness views, redistribution
JEL code(s)
C91, D01, D31, D63
Secondary IDs
Abstract
Is people's willingness to implement their fairness views on a group dependent on how many in the group share their view?
We designed a new experiment to answer this question. In this experiment, spectator participants are incentivized to report how many workers hold which views of whether or not it is fair to redistribute income in a work task. Participants are elicited by placing a lever indicating the portion of people finding each redistribution option fair and paid according to the accuracy of their estimate. They are then elicited for their willingness to pay to implement the distribution they found fair, upon a pair of worker participants who had completed the work task using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method. After their willingness to pay was elicited participants where asked which redistribution they themselves found fair. The experiment is planned to be conducted at Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform with participants from the United States of America. We hypothesize that this study will replicate the result from our previous study where we found that although spectator participants systematically overestimate how many shares their fairness view, being informed about the true number does not affect their decision to implement the distribution they found fair. The new experiment design includes changes to address whether preferences for consistency contaminated our original result in addition to other changes addressing incentivizing choices and clarifying the connection between fairness views and the worker section.
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Registration Citation
Citation
Chen, Xianwen and Øivind Schøyen. 2019. "Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.." AEA RCT Registry. April 21. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4079/history/45304
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Experimental Details
Interventions
Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2019-04-30
Intervention End Date
2019-06-03
Primary Outcomes
Primary Outcomes (end points)
Willingness to pay to implement a redistribution scheme.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
Secondary Outcomes
Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)
Experimental Design
Experimental Design
See pre-analysis plan.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Computer generated randomization/See pre-analysis plan pdf.
Randomization Unit
Individuals/See pre-analysis plan pdf.
Was the treatment clustered?
No
Experiment Characteristics
Sample size: planned number of clusters
N/A (See pre-analysis plan pdf)
Sample size: planned number of observations
1008 Mturk participants
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
N/A (See pre-analysis plan pdf)
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS (IRBs)
IRB Name
Norwegian School of Economics
IRB Approval Date
2017-05-10
IRB Approval Number
N/A
Analysis Plan

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