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Trial Status in_development completed
Trial End Date June 30, 2024 September 30, 2024
Last Published July 23, 2023 01:25 AM March 14, 2025 03:46 PM
Intervention End Date June 30, 2024 September 30, 2024
Experimental Design (Public) We present respondents with a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, food stamps) recipient and one of two different food boxes (a healthy box and a representative box), each worth about $50. One in 20 respondents makes the choice about a real person. Respondents learn that the welfare recipient may or may not be real and do not learn whether they are. Respondents then make a series of choices regarding whether the welfare recipient receives the food box or a set of gift cards of their choice worth a given dollar amount. In order to run these treatments, we first run a survey with SNAP recipients where we elicit their preferences for the food box compared to gift cards. After running the initial survey, we recruit a new panel of 500 respondents. First, we altered the way we elicited respondents’ beliefs (meanBelief, sdBelief) to drag and drop tags into bins rather than using a grid. Second, we randomly provided information about SNAP recipients’ alcohol consumption to some respondents and not to others. We present respondents with a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, food stamps) recipient and one of two different food boxes (a healthy box and a representative box), each worth about $50. One in 20 respondents makes the choice about a real person. Respondents learn that the welfare recipient may or may not be real and do not learn whether they are. Respondents then make a series of choices regarding whether the welfare recipient receives the food box or a set of gift cards of their choice worth a given dollar amount. In order to run these treatments, we first ran a survey with SNAP recipients where we elicited their preferences for the food box compared to gift cards. After running the initial survey, we recruit a new pilot panel of 428 respondents. First, we alter the way we elicited respondents’ beliefs (meanBelief, sdBelief) to drag and drop tags into bins rather than using a grid. Second, we randomly provide information about SNAP recipients’ alcohol consumption to some respondents and not to others. We finally rerun the new design with a panel of 1,997 respondents using the new interface.
Planned Number of Clusters Initial survey: 4,000 respondents (including 3,800 respondents who make choices about artificial welfare recipients with pre-specified demographics); 140-160 real welfare recipients for incentives. Second round: 500 respondents; 150 real welfare recipients for incentives. Initial survey: 4,000 respondents (including 3,800 respondents who make choices about artificial welfare recipients with pre-specified demographics); 140-160 real welfare recipients for incentives. Second round: 428 respondents; 137 real welfare recipients for incentives. Final round: 1,997 respondents; 133 real welfare recipients for incentives.
Planned Number of Observations Initial survey: 4,000 respondents (including 3,800 respondents who make choices about artificial welfare recipients with pre-specified demographics); 140-160 real welfare recipients for incentives. Second round: 500 respondents; 150 real welfare recipients for incentives. Initial survey: 4,000 respondents (including 3,800 respondents who make choices about artificial welfare recipients with pre-specified demographics); 140-160 real welfare recipients for incentives. Second round: 428 respondents; 137 real welfare recipients for incentives. Final round: 1,997 respondents; 133 real welfare recipients for incentives.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms Approximately 300 respondents in the young white male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the young black male bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young white female (without children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young black female (without children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young white female (with children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young black female (with children) bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old white male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old black male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old white female (without children) bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old black female (without children) bin Initial survey: Approximately 300 respondents in the young white male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the young black male bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young white female (without children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young black female (without children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young white female (with children) bin Approximately 600 respondents in the young black female (with children) bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old white male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old black male bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old white female (without children) bin Approximately 300 respondents in the old black female (without children) bin Second and final rounds: the same proportions of the respective samples
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