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What is your task in the experiment?

  • 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).


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).
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