Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind. Data collection, round 3.

Last registered on December 18, 2021
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind. Data collection, round 3.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0005610
Initial registration date
March 29, 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
April 02, 2020, 12:17 PM EDT

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

Last updated
December 18, 2021, 4:25 AM EST

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

Locations

Country
United States of America
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Ranveig Falch
Affiliation
Norwegian School of Economics
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Alexander W. Cappelen
PI Affiliation
Norwegian School of Economics
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PI Name
Bertil Tungodden
PI Affiliation
Norwegian School of Economics
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2020-03-13
End date
2023-12-31
Keywords
Welfare
Additional Keywords
fairness, gender, behavioral, experimental
JEL code(s)
D63
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial is based on or builds upon one or more prior RCTs.
Abstract
This pre-analysis plan should be read as an addition to the pre-analysis plans submitted to the AEA RCT registry on September 28, 2015, and February 04, 2016, concerning the same project. The results from the initial rounds of data collection suggest that there is significant gender discrimination against male losers in mixed-sex environments where merit is the source of inequality (p < 0:001). The participants make distributive choices involving men and women and we randomly manipulate the gender composition in the distributive situations. The goals of the third round of data collection are i) to check the robustness of the fi nding described above, and ii) to test whether there is a significant interaction between gender discrimination and the source of inequality (merit/luck) in the mixed sex environment.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Cappelen, Alexander W., Ranveig Falch and Bertil Tungodden. 2021. "Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind. Data collection, round 3.." AEA RCT Registry. December 18. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5610-1.1
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2020-03-13
Intervention End Date
2020-04-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
The main dependent variable in the analysis will be the standardized amount transferred by spectator i to the losing worker.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
This registration concerns the third round of data collection for a project where we study peoples’ views on income inequalities generated in a labor market. Our main focus is on whether people show less concern for income inequality when a male is falling behind than when a female is falling behind.The participants make distributive choices involving men and women and we randomly manipulate the gender composition in the distributive situations. This pre-analysis plan should be read as an addition to the pre-analysis plans submitted to the AEA RCT registry on September 28, 2015, and February 04, 2016, concerning the same project.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization done by a computer.
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
11000 individuals
Sample size: planned number of observations
11000 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
2750 individuals in each of the four treatment arms.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
NHH Norwegian School of Economics Institutional Review Board (NHH IRB)
IRB Approval Date
2020-02-16
IRB Approval Number
NHH-IRB 05/20
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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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Reports, Papers & Other Materials

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