Group Incentive: A Field Experiment

Last registered on July 11, 2019
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Group Commitment: A Field Experiment
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004432
Initial registration date
July 10, 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 11, 2019, 1:08 PM EDT

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

Locations

Country
China
Region
Shanghai

Primary Investigator

Name
Fangwen Lu
Affiliation
Peking University
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Bin Miao
PI Affiliation
PI Name
Huiwen Li
PI Affiliation
PI Name
Quan Jin
PI Affiliation

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2019-07-11
End date
2020-02-29
Keywords
Labor
Additional Keywords
Commitment; Incentive
JEL code(s)
J3
Secondary IDs
D8
Abstract
This experiment tests whether members in a group production setting will choose commitment instrument. Who will choose it? Under what conditions? What are the consequences?
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Jin, Quan et al. 2019. "Group Commitment: A Field Experiment." AEA RCT Registry. July 11. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4432-1.0
Former Citation
Jin, Quan et al. 2019. "Group Commitment: A Field Experiment." AEA RCT Registry. July 11. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4432/history/49847
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2019-07-15
Intervention End Date
2019-08-10

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Choices of pay scheme and the productivity under assigned or chosen pay scheme
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Description is provided in the hidden part.
Experimental Design Details
The experiment can be divided into four steps.
Step 1: conduct a lab experiment testing the subjects' risk/ambiguity/time/social preference.
Step 2: let the subjects experience different pay schemes as well as the consequent productivity and earnings.
Step 3: ask the subjects to fill a questionnaire on their preference for pay schemes under different circumstance, and tell them their choice will decide their pay schemes on some future dates.
Step 4: assign subjects into different pay schemes based on exogenous assignment or endogenous choice.
Randomization Method
Randomization will be done in STATA.
Randomization Unit
Individual.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
96 human subjects.
Sample size: planned number of observations
At least, 96 individuals × 10 days
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
480 individual-days as control with exogenous assignment, and 480 individual-days as treatment with endogenous assignment
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Committee of Lab for Economic Organization and Behavior, Renmin University of China
IRB Approval Date
2019-07-11
IRB Approval Number
RUCecon-201907-1
Analysis Plan

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

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