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Integration agreements between job seekers and public employment services define mutual obligations for labor market integration, including job search requirements, the support provided by the agency, and the conditions under which compliance is monitored and sanctioned. We study how reminding job seekers of different dimensions of these commitments affects their job search behavior, their knowledge of the rules they are subject to, and their labor market outcomes. The study is conducted in the context of the French Contrat d'Engagement (CE), a mandatory integration agreement signed by job seekers and caseworkers upon registration with the French public employment service, France Travail. The CE includes a personalized action plan specifying activities to support labor market integratio...
Based on theoretical predictions, I conduct a laboratory experiment to explore whether (a) self-image concerns are reference-dependent and (b) loss aversion applies to self-image concerns. I let subjects work on an IQ test, a self-image-relevant task, and induce an exogenous shift in complexity designed to put them at either gain or loss in self-image. Then, I elicit their willingness to acquire feedback. Considering potentially asymmetric belief updating, I analyze whether subjects who experience loss in self-image are more likely to acquire feedback compared to those with a loss in this domain. Update 20.07.2026: Title updated to match the current manuscript. The original preregistered hypotheses and analysis plan remain unchanged.
In the context of the rising costs of healthcare, our study seeks to address a key component of input costs in hospital systems: the costs of supplies used in surgical procedures. Physicians are given substantial autonomy in the way they perform medical procedures including the choice of which supplies to use during treatment. This autonomy is an integral part of the organizational design of most hospitals, as it is thought that decentralization puts decision rights in the hands of the most informed agents. However, doctors are not typically incentivized to reduce costs and thus often select expensive supplies even when less expensive options exist. Our project uses several interventions to encourage doctors to select lower cost, but equal quality, supplies. Our interventions include (1...
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...
Estimates suggest that 250 million children under 5-years of age in low- and middle-income countries are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential (Lu, Black, & Richter, 2016). Compared to other regions, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of children at risk, with 38% of the 143 million children younger than 5 stunted and 50% living in extreme poverty (Lu et al., 2016). Early childhood education (ECE) can support child development; estimates suggest that the benefit–cost ratio of increasing ECE access in LMICs is considerable (Engle et al., 2011). Whether ECE targeted to the most vulnerable girls in a community can reduce gender inequalities is not known. Northern Nigeria has some of the world’s highest rates of child marriage and maternal mortality and lowest ra...
I am running an RCT in 80 government and 40 low-cost private schools in Cape Coast Ghana for first grade students. These schools get one or both of two cross-randomized treatments. One treatment organizes scripted parent meetings where parents are 1) told the benefits of doing literacy activities with their child at home (e.g. asking what they learned in school, reading with them, going through school materials etc.), 2) trained on how to understand the report card they get on students literacy scores, and 3) briefly trained how to run a 1-minute reading assessment using provided materials on their child. The other cross-randomized treatment trains school leaders to better coach their teachers in teaching literacy, and also how to interact/engage parents. I am studying the interaction o...
This project aims to use experimental economics and educational science to improve students’ social-emotional development in rural areas by conducting social and emotional learning courses in rural primary schools. The project will use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) classes on students’ self-awareness, self-esteem, psychological health, interpersonal relationships, behavior problems, and psychological pressures. In the first treatment arm, rural class teachers (without requirement on psychology background) will be given a 2-day training on SEL every semester and then asked to teach SEL classes to rural students once every week in consecutive semesters. In the second treatment arm, rural teachers and students will receive the...
Against the backdrop of increasing use of generative AI, we study the relationship between AI use and well-being using a large scale survey on a representative sample of the French population. First, we conduct descriptive analyses documenting how baseline AI use relates to both subjective and objective loneliness. Second, we run a randomized controlled trial in which participants are assigned either to engage in daily personal conversations with a generative AI for 28 days or to continue their usual behavior. This allows us to uncover the causal effect of daily conversations with generative AI on subjective loneliness and well-being as well as on objective loneliness (real-life interactions).
China's rapid economic development and its central role in driving globalization have significantly expanded its economic ties with the European Union (EU) over the past few decades. However, in recent years, geopolitical tensions have raised concerns within the EU about whether to further strengthen investment ties with China. This project focuses on a crucial aspect of these economic relations: Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) between China and Germany, one of China's largest investment partners within the EU. We propose to conduct a randomized information-provision survey experiment to gauge the German public’s opinions on inward Chinese FDIs in Germany. This study will first investigate whether there are significant misperceptions among the German public regarding the actual figu...
This research employs an artefactual framed-field experiment with students at the investigating University to assess how representation affects individuals’ perceptions of their own academic ability as well as their likelihood to pursue higher education. The experiment also investigates participants’ perceptions of the likelihood that their peers will pursue further education, by gender. Participation is open to current University students at the investigating University across all degree levels and academic fields. Participants will view a video depicting a panel of notable academics. Treatments will vary across the panel depicted with regards to the gender diversity of the academics shown. Participants will be asked a series of questions both before and after the video is shown to...