Experiments on the Role of State Actors in Eliciting Pro-Developmental Behavioral Change

国家行为者在引发促发展行为改变中的作用实验

• 批准号: 2241698
• 负责人: Anjali Thomas
• 金额: $ 26.82万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241698&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experiments; Role; State; Actors; Eliciting

Governments are often tasked with providing important collective and individual benefits to citizens, but, in many key policy areas, citizens must take action in order for these benefits to be realized. For example, governments and NGOs have long understood that expanding access to healthcare and education in underserved communities requires poorer citizens to avail themselves of public programs. In the wake of the pandemic, the question of how states can elicit individual behavioral change has taken on pressing significance for policy-makers and practitioners in the United States and beyond. Through an experimental examination of how messages from state actors shape participation in government health and education benefits, this project will directly inform efforts to implement initiatives which rely on pro-developmental actions from citizens. The project explores how citizen relationships with and perceptions of particular state actors shape the success of these actors in motivating pro-developmental behaviors. It posits that this success will vary according to (1) whether state actors operate at the state or local level, (2) whether they are elected officials or appointed administrators, and (3) whether they are women or men. In addition, the project contends that citizens who share political preferences and demographic traits with particular state actors will be more likely to trust their calls for behavioral change. To test these arguments, the project implements two related Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), focusing on two policy areas – health and education. The health portion explores the choice by lower-income citizens to sign up for health insurance, while the education portion looks at parent willingness to enroll girls in school. The RCTs comprise two waves of survey experiments delivered to a randomized selection of approximately 2,000 lower-income citizens. In the first wave, messages encouraging pro-developmental behavior in education and health – and randomized as coming from different types of state actors -- will be delivered in-person. The same messages will then be delivered over two months to respondent mobile devices, after which the second wave will measure whether respondents have indeed engaged in the recommended pro-developmental action. The findings will allow an assessment of whether, and under what conditions, state actors can influence citizens to adopt pro-developmental behaviors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

政府通常肩负着为公民提供重要的集体和个人利益的任务，但在许多关键政策领域，公民必须采取行动才能实现这些利益，例如，政府和非政府组织长期以来都认识到，扩大医疗保健和个人福利的机会。服务不足的社区的教育需要贫困公民利用公共项目。在大流行之后，国家如何引发个人行为改变的问题对于美国及其他地区的政策制定者和实践者来说具有紧迫的意义。对国家行为者的信息如何影响参与的实验研究该项目将直接为实施依赖公民促发展行动的举措提供信息。该项目探讨了公民与特定国家行为者的关系和对特定国家行为者的看法如何影响这些行为者在激励促发展行为方面的成功。它认为，这种成功将根据以下因素而有所不同：（1）国家行为者是在州还是地方层面运作，（2）他们是民选官员还是任命的行政人员，以及（3）他们是女性还是男性。该项目认为，具有共同政治偏好和人口统计特征的公民为了检验这些论点，该项目实施了两项相关的随机对照试验（RCT），重点关注两个政策领域——健康和教育。随机对照试验包括两轮随机选择的大约 2,000 名低收入公民的调查实验。波浪、消息鼓励教育和健康方面的促发展行为（并且随机来自不同类型的国家行为者）将亲自传递相同的信息，然后将在两个月内向参与者的移动设备传递，之后将进行第二波。衡量受访者是否确实参与了建议的有利于发展的行动。调查结果将反映对国家行为者是否以及在什么条件下可以影响公民采取有利于发展的行为的评估。该奖项属于 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为。值得通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估来支持更广泛的影响审查标准。