An Experiment on Financial Education in Chilean Schools.

Last registered on January 10, 2020
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
An Experiment on Financial Education in Chilean Schools.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0005230
Initial registration date
January 08, 2020

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
January 10, 2020, 11:29 AM EST

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

Locations

Country
Chile
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Ryan Cooper
Affiliation
Experimental Policy Unit - Chilean Budget Office
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Christopher Neilson
PI Affiliation
Princeton University
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PI Name
Antonia Sanhueza
PI Affiliation
Dirección de Presupuestos (DIPRES) - Chilean Budget Office
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Withdrawn
Start date
2019-03-03
End date
2019-08-01
Keywords
Education, Finance & Microfinance
Additional Keywords
Financial Education
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Abstract
The trial intended to measure the effect of financial education programa in schools on the financial decisions of Children. The program would be randomly assigned to a subset of eligible schools in Chile. The trial was withdrawn given that after a phase of application of schools there was not excess demand and thus it was not possible to randomize treatment.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Cooper, Ryan, Christopher Neilson and Antonia Sanhueza. 2020. "An Experiment on Financial Education in Chilean Schools. ." AEA RCT Registry. January 10. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5230-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2019-04-01
Intervention End Date
2019-07-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Financial behaviour of children after leaving school.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
A subset of eligible schools would have been randomly assigned to treatment.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
In the office by a computer.
Randomization Unit
Randomization of schools (clusters of children).
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
300
Sample size: planned number of observations
15000
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
150 treatment schools and 150 control schools.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

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Analysis Plan

Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

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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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