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We designed a survey experiment to study how information about artificial intelligence affects educational and career choices among young adults in Denmark. The study population consists of individuals over age 18 who are about to graduate from high school or who graduated within the past three years. The experiment cross-randomizes two information interventions. The first provides one of two general narratives about AI’s labor-market effects: one emphasizing that exposure to AI may lead to better job opportunities, and one emphasizing that exposure to AI may worsen job opportunities. The second treatment arms provides treated respondents with field-specific estimates of current AI exposure for two educational or vocational fields they are considering, while the control group receives n...
We examine whether providing investors with information that male- and female-managed mutual funds perform equally can mitigate the industry's persistent lack of gender parity, which may be partly driven by investor demand. In an incentivized experiment, we will test whether investors discriminate against female fund managers and will separate potential statistical discrimination from taste-based discrimination. The former, rooted in beliefs about group averages that may not reflect the characteristics of subgroups or individuals, should decline with relevant subgroup- or individual-specific information. Our design evaluates three remedies: direct investor education, providing detailed fund performance information, and minimizing gender salience in fund presentations. The experiment is ...
This project will explore the political economy of government effectiveness and climate-resilient policymaking. We use a randomized field experiment in Turkana County, Kenya to test whether provision of climate information to government officials leads to better-informed officials and better policymaking in the face of climate shocks. We also explore more generally how information flows within bureaucratic hierarchies, and how bureaucratic incentives shape decisionmaking and communication.
This study investigates how students’ performance changes under different motivational framings: individual effort, individual competition, team responsibility, and generativity through charitable giving. The experiment is conducted in schools and asks students to complete two comparable tasks under four conditions: a running activity to do in the school gym and a skill-based game to play on the computer. In the baseline condition, students perform individually and receive only their personal result. In competitive conditions, each student competes for the school’s individual ranking. In the team condition, each student performs individually but the result contributes to the score of a team or class. In the charity condition, individual performance generates a real donation to one of s...
The internet, as a public space, is characterized by one important feature: anonymity. This anonymity allows users to access and engage with the online sphere while their individual identities and backgrounds remain relatively obscured, with the option to selectively disclose such information. Anonymity enables individuals to express their opinions and emotions more freely in public spaces, fostering diversity and representativeness in public discourse. It also shifts the focus to the content of discussions rather than differences in identity, thereby reducing bias and discrimination and promoting social inclusivity. Ensuring freedom of expression in the online sphere requires safeguarding this anonymity, especially in today’s era of political polarization. However, some governments ma...
A large literature uses information-provision experiments to study how factual cues shift preferences over public spending levels, but less is known about whether such cues also shift support for the institutional rules that govern fiscal allocations. We test this in the context of Korea's Local Education Finance Grant (LEFG), which earmarks a fixed share of internal tax revenue for education. In a nationally representative online experiment with approximately 3,000 Korean adults (ages 19–65), we randomize respondents to a placebo control or one of three information treatments—expenditure efficiency under demographic change, international reference points, and cross-sector budget trade-offs—and measure their fiscal preferences and attitudes toward the LEFG formula. We plan to examine he...
Can corporations do evil without being run by evil people? If so, why? This study explores these questions through a survey experiment. Participants face a moral trade-off involving a financially beneficial yet ethically costly decision. The experimental design randomly varies contextual and structural features of the decision to examine how each factor influences the decision-making process. In addition, we aim to analyze individual heterogeneity using measures from moral psychology to understand why participants differ in their responses. The goal is to shed light on how context and incentives shape moral judgment.
Legal or administrative barriers—such as employment bans for asylum seekers—can prevent people from working even when they initially would like to. This study examines whether such temporary barriers reduce people’s willingness to work both during periods of restricted access and after the barriers are removed and explores possible mechanisms driving these effects. In a multi-day online experiment, participants repeatedly choose between a well-paid work option and a lower-paid leisure option. In one treatment, participants are repeatedly prevented from carrying out the work option they choose and are instead assigned to leisure, creating a situation in which access to work is externally restricted. In a control group, participants always have full access to the work option. The main g...
We consider a rank-order tournament model involving a tournament administrator (employer or principal) and two agents competing for the prize (the promotion), and test experimentally the principal's inferences and the agents' responses. Specifically, one agent has an exogenous advantage, which is known and observable to the principal. The principal's incentives are designed such that it's in their best interest to design a promotion rule that levels the playing field ex post. We will test whether i) the principals promote optimally and if not, ii) agents anticipate this distortion and adapt effort accordingly. This pre-registration extends pre-registration #14254.
Many students struggle to achieve their intended academic progress, often opting to withdraw from courses, miss exams or fail to pass them. Research highlights that young and inexperienced decision-makers face numerous psychological and behavioral barriers that hinder goal attainment. In this project, we test three interventions, developed in collaboration with the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (SELF), to examine whether targeted communication can support students in adhering to their academic plans. The first two interventions test the effect of information about financial consequences of credit completion / lack of credit completion. The third intervention tests the effect of offering a study success program targeting psychological and behavioral barriers to credit completion...