Economic Context Affects Social Perception

Last registered on April 14, 2021
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Economic Context Affects Social Perception
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0007519
Initial registration date
April 14, 2021

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First published
April 14, 2021, 11:03 AM EDT

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

Locations

Country
United States of America
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Jeanne Hagenbach
Affiliation
CNRS - Sciences Po
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Victoria Lee
PI Affiliation
Duke University
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PI Name
Rachel Kranton
PI Affiliation
Duke University
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2021-04-15
End date
2021-09-01
Keywords
Behavior, Gender
Additional Keywords
Economics.
JEL code(s)
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Abstract
Economists have now recognized that agents' social perceptions and relations shape economic interactions. We propose a novel experiment with the objective to study whether the opposite direction is operative, namely whether the economic setting affects agents' social perceptions and potential relations with others. Our treatments exogenously vary the economic setting, and in a cross-subject study, subjects are asked their social evaluations of others in the different settings.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Hagenbach, Jeanne, Rachel Kranton and Victoria Lee. 2021. "Economic Context Affects Social Perception." AEA RCT Registry. April 14. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.7519-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)


Intervention Start Date
2021-04-15
Intervention End Date
2021-09-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
For each subject, the key outcome variables are (i) the experimental treatment he/she went trhough, (ii) the stated closeness, similarity and commonality to the matched partner, (iii) the objective commonality constructed using the answers to the Study Questionnaire of the subject and the matched partner.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Our experiment has 4 Parts. In the first, each subject is asked to complete a Study Questionnaire on his/her own personal attributes and preferences. In Part 2, the subject performs some tasks. In Part 3, the subject is involved in a simple economic interaction with two randomly selected subjects who previously completed the Study Questionnaire. In Part 4, the subject sees the answers to the Study Questionnaire that were given by one of these two individuals. The subject is asked to assess his/her closeness and similarity to this person, and how many profiles items in the Study Questionnaire they have in common. Our objective is to study how the economic interactions built in Parts 2 and 3 affect social perceptions elicited in Part 4.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
The subjects will be recruited on the platform Prolific.
For Study 1, they will all go through the exact same survey.
For Study 2, they will be randomly assigned to one of our 4 experimental treatments (by a random number generated within Qualtrics).
Randomization Unit
Individual subject.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
No clustering.
Sample size: planned number of observations
For Study 1, 500 subjects. For Study 2, 1000 subjects.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
For Study 2, 1000 subjects will be randomly assigned to one of the 4 treatments.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Duke University IRB
IRB Approval Date
2021-04-05
IRB Approval Number
20190170
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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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