Causal effects of information about discrimination against own racial group

Last registered on November 17, 2020

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Causal effects of information about discrimination against own racial group
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0006734
Initial registration date
November 13, 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
November 16, 2020, 1:14 PM EST

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

Last updated
November 17, 2020, 6:48 AM EST

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

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Politických vězňů 7, 111 21 Prague, Czech Republic

Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2020-11-09
End date
2020-12-01
Secondary IDs
Abstract
In a randomized online experiment, we investigate the racial minorities' responses to exogenous information about discrimination against own racial group. Specifically, our study examines the information effects on minorities' (i) respective beliefs, (ii) performance in a real-effort task, (iii) willingness to pay for race-blind determination of their earnings and (iv) decision to exaggerate own task performance. The experiment will be conducted with a large sample representative of the African American population residing in the United States. Subjects will be randomly divided into two subsets. Both groups will be asked for an incentivized guess about the number of White respondents from a previous survey who allocated at least the same amount to an African American person as they allocated to a White person. In the treatment arm, participants will subsequently see a true number based on the survey results. In the control group, the information stage will be omitted.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Korlyakova, Darya. 2020. "Causal effects of information about discrimination against own racial group." AEA RCT Registry. November 17. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.6734-1.1
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
See pre-analysis plan
Intervention Start Date
2020-11-09
Intervention End Date
2020-12-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
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Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
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Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2000 subjects
Sample size: planned number of observations
2000 subjects
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
Control group: about 1000 individuals
Treatment group: about 1000 individuals
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
CERGE Ethical Committee
IRB Approval Date
2020-09-07
IRB Approval Number
N/A
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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