Religious Identity, Trust, and Prosociality

Last registered on May 17, 2022

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Religious Identity, Trust, and Prosociality
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0008424
Initial registration date
October 22, 2021

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
October 25, 2021, 11:10 AM EDT

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

Last updated
May 17, 2022, 11:47 PM EDT

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

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
University of Leicester
PI Affiliation
Centre for Social and Behavior Change

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2021-10-25
End date
2022-09-30
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
In this paper we are interested in exploring the effects of religious social identity on trust, trustworthiness, and prosociality.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Dhami, Sanjit, Pavan Mamidi and Mengxing Wei. 2022. "Religious Identity, Trust, and Prosociality." AEA RCT Registry. May 17. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.8424-3.0
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2021-10-25
Intervention End Date
2022-09-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
trustor’s belief of the trustee’s return, trustee's belief of trustor's transfer, trustee’s return, trustor's transfer, dictator's transfer, religiosity, etc.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Two treatments
Between subjects design
Strategy method
Couterbalanced order
Virtual lab experiment
Experimental Design Details
Two treatments: religious priming treatment and non-religious priming treatment.
Priming manipulation check: two different checks after priming.
Subjects: Muslim/Hindu in India
Between subjects design: in the sense that each subject can only participate in only one of the above treatments.
Strategy method: in the elicitation of beliefs and actions
Couterbalanced order: Trust game and (modified) dictator game
Virtual lab experiment
Randomization Method
randomization done by a computer
Randomization Unit
individual-level randomization in the sense that which session the subjects will be in is randomized;
randomly match half the sample with the same religion and the other half with the different religion.
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2 treatments
Sample size: planned number of observations
around 400 subjects
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
around 200 subjects in each treatment
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
The Ashoka Institutional Review Board
IRB Approval Date
2021-09-30
IRB Approval Number
N/A
Analysis Plan

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Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

Study Withdrawal

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
Reports, Papers & Other Materials

Relevant Paper(s)

Reports & Other Materials