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The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a universal student support intervention that provides personalized video feedback, recommendations, and action-oriented tasks can improve students' academic and college experiences. The intervention is designed to address common challenges experienced by college students, including study strategies, time management, financial stress, social belonging, and other barriers to academic success. We will examine whether students who receive personalized support demonstrate improvements in outcomes such as academic performance.
Do people hold responsibility-sensitive fairness preferences regarding others' greenhouse gas emissions? We study this question in the context of the German heating transition through an incentivized survey experiment fielded in the German Heating and Housing Panel. In a randomized factorial design, participants allocate carbon pricing rebates between households that differ in responsibility-relevant conditions at the time of their heating technology choice. Exogenous variation in policy environments—information about future CO₂ costs and access to subsidies for climate-friendly alternatives—identifies how information and economic capacity shape judgments of responsibility and deservingness. This allows us to isolate responsibility-sensitive fairness preferences and compare them to inco...
This project aims to understand the drivers of the recent increase in worker collective action in the United States. Since 2020, there has been a surge in union organizing activity, particularly among low-wage retail and service sector workers, that has corresponded with two other shifts in the economy. First, labor market tightness increased dramatically, making it easier for workers to find new jobs. Second, organizing attempts received a great deal of media attention, particularly on social media. Each of these factors could independently facilitate organizing efforts, by lowering the costs of organizing and by improving beliefs about the likelihood that organizing will succeed. These factors could also reinforce each other, further driving increases in willingness to engage in colle...
Lean & Green combines lean management practices with environmental sustainability goals to align efficiency improvements with systematic reductions in resource use and environmental externalities across production and organizational processes. The success of corporate Lean & Green initiatives critically depends on bottom-up implementation, as employee involvement in continuous improvement processes enables the consistent realization of both efficiency and environmental gains. Companies employ a variety of financial and non-financial incentive strategies to motivate employee engagement in Lean & Green initiatives; yet causal empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such strategies remains limited. Using a large-scale behavioral experiment with industry professionals, we systematically ...
The agricultural sector plays a crucial role in Pakistan's economy, contributing significantly to the country's GDP. However, it faces several challenges, including low productivity, outdated technology, and slow growth. Additionally, climate change and unpredictable weather patterns exacerbate these issues. While there is substantial evidence that adopting Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) can boost farm income, particularly in developing countries, the implementation of CSA practices in Pakistan has been minimal. This project aims to implement a CSA package to improve agricultural productivity and income for small farmers in Pakistan. The focus will be on Bhera, a region in the province of Punjab, which experiences lower agricultural productivity compared to the provincial average. Th...
People often rely on advice from e.g., parents, teachers and colleagues to make important career decisions. We use an online experiment to study gender differences in self-promotion and career advice. For this purpose, we ask participants in the role of advisers to give advice to "workers" (other participants in the experiment). We study whether male and female workers receive different advice, and if so, whether these differences are driven by a gender gap in worker self-promotion or by other factors. We also examine whether any gender gap in advice we uncover can be reduced by changing the information available to advisers.
People often rely on advice from e.g., parents, teachers and colleagues to make important career decisions. In a first pre-registered data collection effort (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/13803), we used an online experiment to study gender differences in career advice. For this purpose, we asked participants in the role of advisers to give advice to "workers" (other participants in the experiment). In this second wave of data collection, we intend to replicate our first wave in a sample of participants with experience in management or teaching. We also append our study with an additional set of vignette tasks.
Many low-income workers remain in low-return local labor markets despite large spatial wage gaps, while others migrate for jobs that appear unattractive on purely pecuniary grounds. Standard accounts explain migration through wages, employment risk, liquidity constraints, and networks. We study whether occupational stigma also shapes the spatial allocation of labor. Manual work such as construction may carry a social penalty. The same work may be less socially costly when undertaken where the worker is not known or observed by their peers or reference groups. Migration may therefore be a way of escaping social stigma associated with certain jobs. We test this mechanism in a field experiment with male manual laborers in villages near Patna, Bihar where participants evaluate the same c...
A growing body of evidence demonstrates the crucial importance of access to quality childcare services for child development, women’s economic opportunities, and by extension the wellbeing of families and communities (Aliga et al., 2023). Early childhood care has a central role in fostering children’s physical, intellectual and psychosocial development, with effects experienced along the life course (Black et al., 2017). As women fulfill most care responsibilities across societies, access to childcare services also has transformative potential for women’s engagement with the labor market (Evans, Jakiela and Knauer, 2021). The effects of interventions focused on early childhood care on children and mothers have been well documented across higher-income country settings (Del Boca, 2015...
A growing body of research suggests that gender norms within the household play an important role in constraining female labor supply (Bursztyn, Fujiwara, and Pallais 2017; Folke and Rickne 2020; Bursztyn, González, and Yanagizawa-Drott 2020). One norm that has attracted particular attention is the “breadwinning” norm – the idea that in heterosexual married couples, husbands should earn more than their wives. Despite considerable work in this area, there is still ongoing debate as to whether these norms explain the high density of married women who earn slightly less than their husbands (Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan 2015; Zinovyeva and Tverdostup 2021; Gupta 2022). Moreover, if these norms are binding, it is unclear whether they are driven by self-image or social-image concerns and how t...