Crisis and political attitudes

Last registered on June 17, 2020
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Crisis and political attitudes
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0005993
Initial registration date
June 16, 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
June 17, 2020, 10:35 AM EDT

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

Locations

Country
Czechia
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Vojtech Bartos
Affiliation
University of Milan
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Julie Chytilova
PI Affiliation
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and CERGE-EI
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PI Name
Michal Bauer
PI Affiliation
CERGE-EI and Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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PI Name
Jana Cahlikova
PI Affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2020-05-25
End date
2020-05-31
Keywords
Governance
Additional Keywords
crisis, experiment, political attitudes
JEL code(s)
C90, D01, D91, P48
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We study effects of increased salience of a crisis on individual political attitudes in an internet survey experiment with a representative sample of the Czech population.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Bartos, Vojtech et al. 2020. "Crisis and political attitudes." AEA RCT Registry. June 17. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5993-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
We study effects of increased salience of a crisis on individual political attitudes in an internet survey experiment with a representative sample of the Czech population.
Intervention Start Date
2020-05-25
Intervention End Date
2020-05-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
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Primary Outcomes (explanation)
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Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
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Secondary Outcomes (explanation)
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Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We study effects of increased salience of a crisis on individual political attitudes in an internet survey experiment with a representative sample of the Czech population.
Experimental Design Details
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Randomization Method
Individual level randomization done by a computer
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2492 individuals
Sample size: planned number of observations
2492 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
1246 individuals per treatment
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
This study is sufficiently powered to detect even very small effects.
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IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Commission for Ethics in Research, Charles University
IRB Approval Date
2020-05-27
IRB Approval Number
N/A
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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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