Gender effects in leadership

Last registered on February 01, 2022
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Gender effects in leadership
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0008914
Initial registration date
January 28, 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
February 01, 2022, 4:49 PM EST

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

Locations

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
yangfei lin
Affiliation
University of Exeter
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2022-02-02
End date
2022-02-03
Keywords
Behavior, Gender, Lab
Additional Keywords
Group tasks, Leadership
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
By conducting a lab experiment, I want to examine gender effects in leadership. Participants will be presented with real effort tasks and randomly assigned into groups. Group members and leaders will need to make decisions with different information provided by the experimenter.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
lin, yangfei. 2022. "Gender effects in leadership." AEA RCT Registry. February 01. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.8914-1.0
Sponsors & Partners
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Information about participants' gender and task results.
Intervention Start Date
2022-02-02
Intervention End Date
2022-02-03

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Leaders should prefer to gender congruent group members when deciding who is going to answer for the group. Group members will be more willing to contribute when they have gender congruent leaders.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Participants will be assigned into groups with decision-making tasks in the lab. This experiment aims at investigating gender effects in leadership.
Experimental Design Details
There are three parts to the experiment. The first part contains two tasks. The first task of part one is to answer questions individually
in 6 categories, with 5 questions in each category. This aims at estimating individual abilities in different categories. The second task of part one asks participants to present their confidence for their answers for the first task for each question. The first task and the second task will
be displayed to participants simultaneously, which means participants will need to answer questions and state their confidence in their answers at the same time. In part two, we will rank participants by their correct answers. The best one-third of participants will be selected as leaders. Participants will be randomly assigned into groups of three. In each group, there are two group members and one leader. The selection rule of leaders will be common knowledge. Then group members will be asked to answer new questions in 6 categories, 5 questions in each category. Meanwhile, they are asked to submit their willingness to answer for their groups in each question. After group members submit their answers and willingness to represent their groups, leaders will need to decide who is going to represent their groups
in each question. In the last part, there are two tasks for participants. All participants are asked to guess their group performance then finish a risk elicitation task. In the end, we will run a demographic survey and a psychological survey for personal traits.
Randomization Method
randomization by computer
Randomization Unit
individual
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
100 groups
Sample size: planned number of observations
300 students
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
100 students baseline, 100 students with gender information on both sides, 100 students with only gender information of group members
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
UEBS Research Ethics Committee
IRB Approval Date
2019-09-06
IRB Approval Number
eUEBS002788
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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