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In today’s educational landscape, students are exposed to online learning on a daily basis. This study aims to address the effectiveness of different online teaching modes on students' performance and engagement. To explore this question, we will work with students who voluntarily enroll in the course American Contract Law I taught by Professor Ian Ayres at Yale Law School, offered in Coursera.
Addressing institutional service-delivery related to gender-based violence is a major pol- icy challenge. Despite its policy relevance, there exists considerable gaps in the literature as to how to address the issue. In this project we aim to address these gaps by focusing on the role policing quality may play in addressing GBV. We conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) in Bihar, India, to study the causal effect of a novel intervention that uses expressive arts pedagogy for police officers on technical and soft skills, norms and behaviors regarding GBV. For our study, we randomly assigned 419 police stations (PS) across 12 districts in the state to either receiving the training or a control group. Senior officers operating in treated stations are invited to attend the train...
n low and middle-income countries, there is a pronounced gender gap in labor force participation. Women often work less, earn less, and face greater job insecurity than men.1 In India, the scenario is particularly stark, with only 25 women participating in the labor market for every 100 men. While unequal burden of household chores, restrictive social norms and other factors contribute to this disparity, the impact of limited physical mobility faced by women is under researched. The lack of safety in public spaces and regressive social norms disproportionately affect women’s mobility in many countries. In India, women lack freedom of movement and face pervasive harassment in public spaces which makes it difficult for them to travel alone outside their homes. In the pilot base...
We survey German firm managers on sustainability reporting. Under the current German and EU-level regulation, even firms falling below the official reporting threshold may be asked to report on sustainability, for instance by supply chain partners or banks. In deciding on whether and how extensively to report, firms thus need to weigh the costs and benefits of sustainability reporting. In an information experiment, we introduce exogenous variation in the expected benefits of reporting. The treatment group receives information that firms disclosing CO2 emissions face lower costs for bank loans. (The control group receives generic information on the importance of bank loans for firms in Germany.) We then test whether this information changes how firms assess the benefits of reporting. ...
New technologies have a major impact on the labor market and change the demand for jobs and skills. In this context, firm training emerges as a pivotal strategy for skill adaptation. Nevertheless, participation in firm training is relatively low, especially among low-skilled workers who could benefit the most from up- and reskilling. Existing literature identifies two primary barriers: (1) employees’ uncertainty about the returns to firm training, and (2) employees’ beliefs that they are no longer used to learning. We conduct an information provision treatment with the aim of mitigating these barriers. Our main outcome of interest is employees’ likelihood to participate in firm training and we assess the impact of our information provision treatment on this likelihood.
In the current nudging literature, several have called for more research on the combination of behavioral interventions as a promising avenue to see larger effects (Nisa et al., 2019), and it has also been claimed that combinations of nudges and monetary interventions may be particularly effective in promoting pro-environmental behavior (see e.g. Alt et al., 2024). Most of the research on policy mixes has been done in the energy domain (Allcott et al., 2014; Drews et al., 2020; Fanghella et al., 2021) and there is a lack of research on policy mixes in the food domain. Furthermore, the existing research on policy mixing in the food domain mainly focuses on promoting healthy food products (Ahn & Lusk, 2021; Papoutsi et al., 2015; Vo et al., 2022). The purpose of this study is, first, to i...
This study is an update from our initial equal opportunity experiment. The initial equal opportunity experiment is now considered a pilot experiment. Equal opportunity has wide applicability throughout society. It touches upon access to education, employment, legal representation, etc. Given that equal opportunity has different meanings to different people (i.e., equal opportunity in outcomes, resources, access, etc.), we use a simplified definition based on the different types of equal opportunity mentioned in Arneson (2018). We define equal opportunity to mean that individuals should have similar access to “resources” except when one’s innate ability leads to a difference in resource allocation. This project explores how economic inequality created by an institution affects pro...
We run a choice experiment that induces exogenous variation in job attributes. The key features of the experimental design follows Maestas et al. (2023). We aim at identifying workers' willingness to pay for firm training. Additionally, we investigate willingness to pay for other job attributes, in particular working hours, flexibility, autonomy, contract type and leadership.
Does a training program for factory managers, supervisors, and workers lead to better performance and worker outcomes in factories that are planning to introduce a pay incentive system? We will also test whether any performance or worker outcomes are moderated by social norms deterring sexual harassment, rehumanization of workers, power dynamics, incentive pay, and accountability. We first looked at this question in a study of a management training program in Vietnam. Now we are looking at effects of both the manager training and a whole-workforce rehumanization training in factories in Bangladesh. We also plan to look at whether rehumanization of workers affects supervisors' information processing.
Competitions, or competitive incentives, have been shown, and are used in various real-world settings, to induce higher productivity and output. At the same time, in settings where individuals are able to affect the productivity or output of others, competition can also lead to individuals sabotaging one another. There are two main reasons as to why individuals sabotage when engaged in a competition. First, competition ties one’s payoff (e.g., earnings) to relative performance. This introduces a monetary incentive to sabotage others as it allows one to increase their likelihood of achieving a better relative performance and hence, a higher payoff. Second, being engaged in a competition alters an individual’s psyche and puts them in a competitive state of mind. This might in turn increas...