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Trial End Date December 31, 2020 August 30, 2021
Last Published August 18, 2021 12:16 PM July 14, 2023 12:55 PM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date October 04, 2020
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 76 communities
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 2117 households
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms Sample sizes by treatment condition were as follows: Incentive (N=414, 19.6% of sample), Teaching (N=418, 19.7%), Joint (N=438, 20.7%) and control group (N=847, 40.0%).
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files No
Data Collection Completion Date August 30, 2021
Is data available for public use? No
Intervention Start Date June 15, 2020 August 26, 2020
Intervention End Date August 15, 2020 October 04, 2020
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Papers

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Paper Abstract Interventions to promote learning are often categorized into supply- and demand-side approaches. In a randomized experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand intervention, respectively: teaching via targeted feedback, and providing financial incentives to learners. In theory, teaching and learner-incentives may be substitutes (crowding out one another) or complements (enhancing one another). Experts surveyed in advance predicted a high degree of substitutability between the two treatments. In contrast, we find substantially more complementarity than experts predicted. Combining teaching and incentive treatments raises COVID-19 knowledge test scores by 0.5 standard deviations, though the standalone teaching treatment is the most cost-effective. The complementarity between teaching and incentives persists in the longer run, over nine months post-treatment.
Paper Citation Allen IV, James, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, and Hang Yu. "Teaching and incentives: Substitutes or complements?." Economics of Education Review 91 (2022): 102317.
Paper URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102317
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Post Trial Documents

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Description Allen IV, James, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, and Hang Yu. 2023. "POPULATED PRE-ANALYSIS PLAN for Learning about COVID-19: Improving Knowledge via Incentives and Feedback." AEA RCT Registry. May 26, 2023.
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Populated_PAP_LearningCovid.pdf
MD5: b8973f8438ba3064f169122118cc0b48
SHA1: ea5f13558e458fb4c88af6d116e4549268279159
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Description Allen IV, James, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, and Hang Yu. 2023. "POPULATED PRE-ANALYSIS PLAN for Accelerating Changes in Norms about Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19." AEA RCT Registry. June 12, 2023.
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Populated_PAP_SocialDistancing.pdf
MD5: 7e46aee152fe4fdb73e3cfc7f1356ca8
SHA1: b5a0b8815394741ce9deb0c7e8ce9200aee7ebf4
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