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Workplace sexual harassment is pervasive yet poorly measured, with existing evidence largely confined to severe incidents captured in administrative records. This project documents the prevalence of mild-to-severe harassment experiences among women in India's corporate sector and estimates the economic cost women are willing to bear to avoid them. Using a LinkedIn-based survey of women employed in small-to-midsize Indian firms, we employ a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in which respondents choose between hypothetical job offers varying across wages, skill development opportunities, remote work options, and work environment vignettes describing sexist hostility, sexual hostility, and unwanted sexual attention. We estimate women's willingness-to-pay (WTP) for harassment-free workplaces...
This paper compares two stylized environments in a pre-registered experiment based on a Trust Mini Game played over two independent periods. One environment features a smaller current endowment gap, implemented in the Low Inequality treatment. The other features better ex ante prospects under unchanged current inequality, implemented in the Rank Reversal treatment, where a Poor receiver may become Rich in period 2, and vice versa. The two treatments are calibrated to imply the same expected dispersion of endowments across the two periods of the game. We therefore focus on whether first-period behavior responds more strongly to a smaller current gap or to better prospects ex ante, before any rank reversal is realized.
In this trial, we plan to understand the nature of negotiations on wages between firms and workers in low and middle income countries.
Lead exposure from drinking water remains a critical public health concern in the U.S., primarily driven by lead service lines (LSLs)—lead pipes connecting water mains to buildings. Because LSL inventories offer only a proxy for household-level exposure, as tap water lead levels vary with pipe condition and corrosion control, we are motivated to investigate the following three questions. (1) How does receiving public information that serves as a proxy for pollution exposure affect individuals’ beliefs about personal exposure and confidence in those beliefs? (2) How does it affect willingness to pay (WTP) for mitigation measures? (3) How does it affect WTP for individualized exposure assessments? Leveraging the newly released LSL inventories, we conduct a survey experiment to study how...
A rural-urban digital divide persists in the United States, despite significant efforts and successes in closing the gap, exacerbating uneven access to education, employment, healthcare, and innovation. As artificial intelligence (AI) has become a larger factor in our daily lives, this digital divide has spilled over into a rural-urban AI-divide, with urban adults of working age using AI at twice the rate of their rural counterparts. But the AI-divide may not be fully explained by differential access. This work uses an experimental design with random assignment to identify motivational aspects of the rural-urban AI-divide. In the study, participants engage in two rounds of an online task. In the first round, participants learn how to use a Caesar cipher to encode a word. In the second r...
Access to high quality healthcare is a critical driver of human capital and a cornerstone of broader individual and societal well-being. In Uganda, rural access to health care and to essential medicines remains a persistent challenge; although 86% of Ugandans live in rural areas, only 15-20% of the country’s doctors work in those same areas, which contributes to poorer health outcomes among rural populations. Aside from a few irregular, one-day “mobile clinics” or sponsored medical missions, there are few resources in place for delivering healthcare on a regular basis to people in remote areas. We partnered with Health Access Connect (HAC), a Ugandan-based NGO that coordinates monthly, financially self-sustainable outreach visits by clinical staff from government health facilities to ru...
This study is a survey-based randomized experiment among young adults in Germany who completed their schooling in Baden-Württemberg and belong to birth cohorts from October 2001 to September 2007. It exploits the introduction of the independent school subject “Wirtschaft, Berufs- und Studienorientierung” (WBS), which was implemented across all school types in Baden-Württemberg in the 2016/2017 school year. To this end, a representative sample of selected birth cohorts is drawn and surveyed, allowing for a comparison between individuals in cohorts affected by the curriculum reform and individuals from cohorts who completed schooling before the reform. The study has two main objectives: first, to identify the medium- to longer-term effects of the education reform on financial behavior aft...
The ongoing transformation of the labor market driven by demographic and technological changes has a significant impact on both labor supply and skill demand, potentially resulting in skills mismatches. One way to address this is to continuously invest in human capital throughout one's working life – a concept promoted by policymakers worldwide. However, before designing effective programs, it is important to understand how decisions about on-the-job training are formed. The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of how training decisions are made in German establishments. We develop and test hypotheses on previously underexplored factors that influence both managers' and employees' training investment decisions. In the first part of our project (AEARCTR-0016440), we ...
We study how informational advantage (cheap talk) and narrative persuasion interact in the same experimental setting. In an inference task, receivers observe a dataset and make predictions after receiving a message from a sender who may have additional information and who communicates either through a simple recommendation or an elaborate narrative explanation. By varying the sender’s information and communication mode, we isolate the effects of new information versus new interpretation. We examine how the effects of these message types differ based on whether the senders and receivers have aligned or misaligned preferences. This allows us to test predictions from models of strategic information transmission and competing narratives, and to assess when persuasion works through informati...
We study how monetary policy transmits to firms' beliefs, expectations, and plans and how this transmission is shaped by the preferences of firm executives. We do so via a customized survey among firms in the Netherlands that allows us to apply both event study and RCT methods.