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We study how childcare and eldercare decision-makers respond to email inquiries from parents or children. In a US field experiment with daycare and eldercare centers, we send an email that varies (i) whether the message frames the situation as an exogenous emergency (“our caregiver is moving unexpectedly”), as an endogenous oversight (“we dropped the ball”), or does not specify a reason reason (ii) whether the sender is male or female (by using a male or female sounding name) and (iii) whether the sender is a single parent or not in the case of childcare. We measure if and how centers respond (reply rate and speed), whether they offer an appointment or a spot (and timing), and the tone/helpfulness of replies.
When decision rights and use rights are separated within the household, technologies benefiting low-bargaining-power members are systematically under-adopted, even when socially efficient. This paper studies whether bundling a female-targeted attribute with a male-valued attribute can mitigate this friction. Our collective-household framework shows that pairing a wife-valued improved cookstove with a charger carrying a male net premium moves joint valuation toward the wife's private valuation, narrows gender gaps in willingness to pay, attenuates the sensitivity of adoption to Pareto weights. We will test these predictions using a lab-in-the-field experiment with dual-spouse households in rural Haiti, using a between-subject design eliciting individual and joint valuations for an...
People who believe their intelligence and abilities can be developed over time have growth mindsets, while those that believe they cannot be developed, have fixed mindsets. Students with growth mindsets are predicted to perform better in academics, and to have higher psychological well-being compared to other students. Research suggest that student’s mindsets are malleable, and that level of growth mindset and academic performance can be increased through low-cost and easily scalable interventions. However, there is a lack of studies that focus on how we can support parents to promote the development of growth mindset in their children. I will examine whether parents can learn to foster their children’s growth mindsets through an online intervention. Parents with children in 1.-3. gr...
This laboratory experiment investigates the strategic interactions between a digital platform and consumers, testing the theoretical boundaries of data-driven price discrimination and consumer data manipulation. In a controlled laboratory setting, we implement a game between consumers and the platform. Consumers (played by subjects) are assigned types and choose their platform usage levels (denoted by action T and action M), which generates behavioral data. Simultaneously, the platform decides on its unobservable data-processing investment(i), which determines the probability of successfully decoding usage data for personalized pricing. If data processing succeeds, the platform offers a personalized price to the consumer; otherwise, an anonymous uniform price is charged based on the p...
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are one of the most widely used tools for assessing faculty performance in higher education. Despite their popularity, substantial research has documented concerns around their fairness, particularly highlighting that SET scores may reflect student biases rather than objective teaching quality. Gender-based disparities are of particular concern: female faculty members often receive lower ratings than their male counterparts even when teaching performance is equivalent. To counteract such bias, a commonly recommended strategy is for instructors, especially from underrepresented groups, to signal their professional quality through their academic qualifications, research accomplishments, and work experience. This approach is believed to offset the effe...
Street vending is an important source of subsistence for the urban poor in developing countries. This study seeks to understand buyer and seller behavior in this market. Specifically, the study examines vendors’ business strategies and how these relate to their beliefs about buyers.
Differences in workplace outcomes can depend on factors beyond actual task performance. This project studies whether the way workers describe their own performance affects how others evaluate that performance. In an online experiment, participants are shown profiles of workers doing either a Raven-style logical reasoning test or a writing test and are asked to rate the workers on their test performance. Each profile contains either 1) the pieces of work with suggested solutions alongside self-evaluations of the worker describing their task performance on this task; or 2) the pieces of work with suggested solutions alongside some descriptive texts that match in length and positivity of language (control group), randomly shown to participants. I hypothesise that exposure to worker self-ev...
Do decentralized markets efficiently aggregate supply decisions when firms must commit inventory under correlated uncertainty? We study street vendors selling perishable produce in Patna, India, who first commit to inventory at wholesale markets then set retail prices during the trading day. Demand uncertainty is driven by weather and marketplace-day footfall affecting all vendors simultaneously. Waste from spoilage provides a direct measure of costly supply mistakes. We develop a two-stage model identifying three inefficiency channels: business-stealing through prices, availability externalities through stockout spillovers, and coordination failure under correlated shocks. Our empirical strategy combines vendor-level panel data with randomized price experiments. Vendors are notified of...
This study is a three-year follow up to an evaluation of low-cost behavioral interventions integrated into a productive inclusion program in Ghana. While prior research shows these interventions prompt immediate behavior change, a significant gap remains in understanding whether these effects persist over time and if they translate into improved livelihood outcomes. The original randomized control trial showed positive impact on saving behavior, but delays limited follow through on investments. This longer-term follow-up aims to measure if these interventions lead to enduring savings habits, reinforced financial self-efficacy, and ultimately, increased financial resilience, business performance, and overall well-being. Additionally, the follow-up will update the cost-effectiveness...
Marriage is among the largest financial decisions an Indian family makes. Dowry transfers at a daughter's wedding can consume more than a year of household income, and the quality of her match shapes her economic security, autonomy, and well-being for decades. How wisely families allocate financial resources across daughters therefore matters enormously. Parents typically arrange their children's marriages in birth order. If a good elder match functions as a positive signal to the marriage market, improving how prospective grooms' families view the household, then parents can capitalise on this spillover by strategically allocating more resources to the elder daughter's match. If no such spillover exists, or if parents misjudge it, the same allocation deprives the younger sister of reso...