You can donate to different charity projects which provide vitamin A supplements to children in need.
The projects differ in price and number of vitamin A supplements financed.
However, you do not perfectly know how many vitamin A doses your donation finances.
Instead, you have to estimate this number.
Your donation has real consequences!
For each vitamin A dose you donate, we will provide the equivalent funding to a real
charity for buying and administering vitamin A doses.
Why vitamin A supplements?
Over 200,000 children's deaths can be attributed to vitamin A deficiency each year.
The World Health Organization recommends that all preschool-aged children in areas where vitamin A
deficiency is a public health problem receive vitamin A supplements two to three times per year.
In this experiment, you can donate to children in need through Helen Keller International's Vitamin A
Supplementation Program.[1]
[1] You can read more about the charity and its scientific evaluation here.
How can you donate?
In each round,
you receive ${{ Constants.endowment }}, which you can spend on donations.
you will see two projects.
you can donate to one, both, or neither of the projects.
your bonus payment may be determined by your donation(s).
If your donation decision in a given round is selected as the decision-that-counts, your bonus payment will determined as follows:
If you donated to at least one of the two projects,
you receive ${{ Constants.endowment }} minus the sum of prices of the projects to which you donated, and
we will donate vitamin A doses to each of the projects to which you donated.
If you decided not to donate, you will keep the entire ${{ Constants.endowment }}.
How do donation projects differ?
Each project is described by:
an image depicting the number of vitamin A doses this project finances (which you have to estimate),
the price of donating to this project
The price can be either $4 or $16.
How many vitamin A doses your donation finances depends only on the true number of pills
in the image and not on your estimate!
Before we start, we need to ensure that you understand the instructions.
Remember, if you answer more than two questions wrongly, you will be excluded from the experiment.
You may view the instructions again by going back to the previous page (click 'back' below).