Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.

Last registered on October 19, 2023

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004079
Initial registration date
April 03, 2019

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
April 06, 2019, 3:13 PM EDT

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

Last updated
October 19, 2023, 1:31 PM EDT

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

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Norwegian School of Economics

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
Department of Landscape Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Additional Trial Information

Status
Withdrawn
Start date
2019-09-09
End date
2019-09-22
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
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.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Chen, Xianwen and Øivind Schøyen. 2023. "Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.." AEA RCT Registry. October 19. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4079-4.1
Former Citation
Chen, Xianwen and Øivind Schøyen. 2023. "Paternalist motivation: Second round of experiments.." AEA RCT Registry. October 19. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4079/history/197353
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2019-09-18
Intervention End Date
2019-09-22

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
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)
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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Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

Study Withdrawal

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Yes
Data Collection Completion Date
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?
No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
No
Reports, Papers & Other Materials

Relevant Paper(s)

Reports & Other Materials