I got talent but my mom doesn't know

Last registered on May 03, 2022
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
I got talent but my mom doesn't know
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0008751
Initial registration date
May 03, 2022

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
May 03, 2022, 9:51 AM EDT

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

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Primary Investigator

Name
Yiming Xia
Affiliation
RIEM,Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Pedro Carneiro
PI Affiliation
UCL
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2021-12-15
End date
2022-07-15
Keywords
Education
Additional Keywords
Parenting, mental health, Multiple Intelligences
JEL code(s)
I20
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
In this trial, we collect students' various traits, abilities and interest types. We find high discrepancy between parents’ beliefs and kids’ survey outcome on abilities and interests. We report the students' information to parents and educate parents to look beyond the test score in randomly selected classes. We expect that parents can update their beliefs on children and reoptimize their investments by taking into account of students' interests and abilities.


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Registration Citation

Citation
Carneiro, Pedro and Yiming Xia. 2022. "I got talent but my mom doesn't know ." AEA RCT Registry. May 03. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.8751
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Our interventions have two steps, we first elicit all students' abilities and interests; then we return students' information to parents in randomly selected classes and educate the parents about interests and multiple intelligences.
Intervention Start Date
2022-01-15
Intervention End Date
2022-06-15

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Students' Test score, Mental Health
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
Students test score takes from school administrative dataset, most schools take final exam.
Mental Health is measured by CES-D 10

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Parent beliefs on students' ability and Investment, students' Hobby Classes
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)
Through the survey, we ask the parents about their beliefs on students' ability as well as investment on students' hobby classes. We construct a variable to check number of matched interests between parents' belief and students' reports.

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We use stratified cluster randomization to assign classes into three treatment arms - control, T1 (information), T2 (information and talk).
Each grade in each school is a stratum and class is the unit of randomization.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
class
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
75-80 classes
Sample size: planned number of observations
4400 students
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
1550 students control, 1420 students' parents receives informaton, 1430 students's parents information and talk
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Tsinghua University Department of Psychology IRB
IRB Approval Date
2021-11-01
IRB Approval Number
2021N43
Analysis Plan