Tag
goal_setting
5 findings
Finance & microfinanceGoal-Oriented Financial Literacy TrainingFour months post-training, the curriculum successfully increased hours worked across all trained participants, with business plan formulation and sales growth expanding significantly when coupled with peer support.RCTFinance & microfinanceGoal-Setting Driven Intergenerational Educational InvestmentSoft skills training increased targeted savings for children's education by 8.04 percentage points (p < 0.05; control mean = 26.5%, representing a 30 percent relative increase) and increased expectations that children will achieve education beyond college by 8.85 percentage points (p < 0.01; control mean = 11.7%).RCTDevelopmentAspiration-Driven Goal Setting and Intra-Household Business DialogueAttending the training increased the proportion of upper-caste Hindu women who discussed business plans with family members by 17 percentage points (p < 0.05; baseline mean = 0.69). The differential treatment effect on business dialogue was -0.51 percentage points (p < 0.001) for Scheduled Caste women and -0.35 percentage points (p < 0.001) for Muslim women.RCTBehaviour & psychologyInternal Locus of Control and Psychological Goal-SettingTeaching structured behavioral goal-setting strategies to unemployed workers significantly increased total job application submissions and restored job search activity by shifting perceived control over labor market outcomes.RCTEconomics (general)Skill Accumulation InvestmentTreated students were 14.3 percentage points more likely in Sample A and 19.1 percentage points more likely in Sample B to commit to the difficult task one week in advance (p < 0.01), leading to 8.7 to 10.7 percentage point higher success rates and 16% to 26% higher payoffs in the second visit.RCT