Parent-bias, an extension

Last registered on November 11, 2020
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Parent-bias, an extension
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004386
Initial registration date
June 27, 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
July 10, 2019, 1:40 PM EDT

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

Last updated
November 11, 2020, 9:20 AM EST

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

Locations

Country
Malawi
Region
Salima

Primary Investigator

Name
Juliette Thibaud
Affiliation
University of zurich
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Guilherme lichand
PI Affiliation
University of Zurich
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2019-06-29
End date
2019-12-27
Keywords
Education, Health, Other
Additional Keywords
Time-preferences, investments in children, children
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Abstract
This document is an update to the study pre-registered with the AEA RCT Registry with ID AEARCTR-0003535. In a new wave of data collection , we will conduct a series of experimental games to:
1) assess whether parent-bias remains widespread in our sample when we allow respondents to chose an equal split of resources,
2) measure the correlation between our experimental measure of parent-bias and the take-up of commitment devices when making investment decisions,
3) contrast willingness-to-pay for commitment to stick to one's plans to invest in one's child and in another person's child and
4) estimate whether parent-biased respondents have a higher willingness-to-pay to open a bank account in their child's name.

The present document outlines the experimental design and the econometric methods we will use to assess those three points.
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Registration Citation

Citation
lichand, Guilherme and Juliette Thibaud. 2020. "Parent-bias, an extension." AEA RCT Registry. November 11. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4386-1.2000000000000002
Former Citation
lichand, Guilherme and Juliette Thibaud. 2020. "Parent-bias, an extension." AEA RCT Registry. November 11. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4386/history/79348
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2019-06-29
Intervention End Date
2019-07-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
-Parent-bias
-Willingness to pay to commit to invest in one's child
-Willingness to pay to commit to invest in another person's child
-Willingness to pay to open a savings' account in one's name
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
"Parent-bias" is a dummy variable equal to 1 if the parent choses to allocate a higher share of consumption to the child in period t=3 than in period t=2

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We will conduct a series of experimental games as an extension of our original experiment (AEA RCT Registry with ID AEARCTR-0003535).
All mothers from the households of our original sample will be invited to take part in the follow-up. For all of them, we will elicit:
-A renewed measure of parent-bias and inter-temporal preferences,
-Willingness-to-pay to commit to an investment in their child,
-Willingness-to-pay to commit to an investment in another person's child,
-Willingness-to-pay to open a bank account in the child's name

If the household has more than one child of primary-school age, we will randomly select which child will take part in the experiment.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
-A scenario will be randomly chosen to be executed by the data collection tablets, on the field
-The child will be randomly selected to take part in the games by the data collection tablets, on the field
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
80 villages

Sample size: planned number of observations
2,411 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
2,411 (there are no separate treatment arms in this trial)
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
1-Does the prevalence of parent-bias shrinks when we allow for an equal split of resources? -We will be able to detect a 0.0807 standard deviation difference in the prevalence of parent-bias once we allow respondents to chose an equal split. 2-Do parent-biased respondents have a higher willingness-to-pay to stick to their plans to invest in their children? Assuming that 80% of the respondents in our sample take-up the tutoring for their children and that 30% of our sample is parent-biased, this will enable us to detect a 0.1393 standard deviation difference in the willingness-to-pay for commitment to investments in children between parent-biased and non-parent-biased respondents. 3-Do respondents demand less commitment devices to stick to their plans to invest in someone else's child than in their own? Assuming that 50% of the respondents in our sample take-up the tutoring for their children and that 30% of our sample is parent-biased (in line with our baseline measure without accounting for the price of commitment), this will enable us to detect a 0.1144 standard deviation difference in the willingness-to-pay for commitment to investments in someone else's child. 4-Do parent-biased respondents have a higher willingness-to-pay to open a savings' account in their child's name rather than their own? Assuming that 30% of our sample is parent-biased, this will enable us to detect a 0.1246 standard deviation difference in the willingness-to-pay of parent-biased respondents.
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Human Subjects Committee of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Technology, university of zurich
IRB Approval Date
2019-06-05
IRB Approval Number
OEC IRB # 2019-024
IRB Name
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Malawi
IRB Approval Date
2019-06-06
IRB Approval Number
NCST/RTT/2/6
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

Parent-bias, an extension, pre-analysis plan

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SHA1: 1b6339d61f37315e452ab9290a94e0fe793ecc7d

Uploaded At: June 27, 2019

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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?
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

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