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I first construct a theoretical model to explain and predict the outcome. The intuition behind the model is simple: underestimating the automation risk will force you to revise your beliefs, leading to a lower probability of entering a specific occupation. I focus on three occupations: Teachers, nurses, office clerks, and economists. It is important to understand the determinants for labor supply in these occupations and focus on automation risk since nobody has provided causal evidence that automation risk is a determinant for labor supply in these occupations. To investigate my research question, I leverage an online experiment and pay respondents from Prolific to participate in my study. Respondents answer a survey with questions related to the topic, such as the attractiveness, and...
This experiment plans to explore how behavioral tools affect parents' redemption rate of an online gift card. From 2022 to 2023, the About Technology in Math Education Project (About TIME) by us, the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago, recruited over 1000 families of preschoolers in the Chicago area for a lab experiment and a field experiment to study if educational technology benefits preschoolers' math learning experience. We offered participants online gift cards to incentivize participation. The values of gift cards include $25, $40, and $75. As of April 2024, 283 family parents had yet to redeem the gift cards. To increase the gift card redemption rate with two behavioral approaches, we plan to separate these parents into one treatment group and one ...
This research project investigates how the exposure to different role models impact children’s interest in STEM fields. We design a field experiment integrated within a Computational Thinking (CT) teaching proposal in Uruguay to explore two critical hurdles in children’s interest in STEM: gender and growth mindset beliefs. We will manipulate a teaching module called ‘Write your own adventure’ - provided in the initial level of CT - and randomly assigned classes to one of four different biographies of accomplished scientists. These biographies will manipulate (i) either the gender (male or female) scientist, or (ii) the extent of growth mindset (whether they succeeded or they had to overcome academic struggles since the young age). We will assess the impact on children’s interest in STEM...
Economic Narratives are a way of explaining current economic phenomena. Typically provided by so-called "experts", these narratives can impact individuals’ expectations about the economy. What is unknown so far, however, is whether those narratives about the economy are also finding relevant demand in the population. In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the population’s willingness-to-pay for expert narratives about the macroeconomy. In a first step, we asked renowned economic experts from the United States about their narratives about a current economic phenomenon, the recent surge in the risk of a recession forecasted by the Federal Reserve. In a second step, we offer participants in a large-scale survey representative of the adult population in the United States the opportunit...
Will the possibility of AI replacement affect career decisions for young adults? We test this using an RCT with information treatment. I leverage an online experiment to investigate how automation risk affects the attractiveness of occupations and the desirability of entering a specific occupation. The experiment consisted of one treatment group and a control group. I am modifying a simple model by Wiswall and Zafar (2018), which predicts a lower probability of entering an occupation if the automation risk for the occupation is underestimated. While the outcome may be intuitive, I am the first to study how occupational automation risk affects the desirability of entering a specific occupation. Compared to previous work on automation’s effect on labor markets, I go one step further a...
This study run by Electricité de France on a sample of its clients evaluates the impact of several measures on load shedding, i.e. voluntary reduction in demand for electricity, designed to reduce load at peak times, and if possible shift it to non-peak time periods. The study's outcomes of interest include: - demand reduction at designated peak time - demand shifting to other time frames - modes of adaptation, and habit formation by households: does behavior change on specific peak dates, or across the board? - how the experiment changes consumer's attitude to peak-pricing programs in which the price of electricity can vary significantly with time A specific design choice is to include multiple nudges in spite of the fact that the study is likely not powered to disentangle in...
When mean beliefs about men and women are elicited, often there is very little difference. But in line with previous literature on perceived variance of men vs. women, we aim to investigate whether the extremes of belief distributions over performance inform hiring decisions. Our laboratory experiment is designed to first test whether men and women are hired disproportionately for jobs with different expectations of performance. Additionally, we elicit beliefs about the variance of men and women's performance in order to determine whether the shape of belief distributions gives insight into why we might see a gender gap in hiring.
This experiment aims to understand the causal effects of corporate transparency and accounting (CTA) practices on the growth and access to finance of medium-sized firms in Uganda. We provide consulting to companies in a randomized controlled trial setting. For each treated firm, we assign a financial consultant to introduce digital accounting software and adopt best accounting and financial reporting practices. We evaluate the causal impact of this intervention on both CTA practices and various firm-level outcomes, such as access to finance and firm performance.
Since the pandemic, working a couple of days per week remotely from home has become the norm in many organizations. This transition, while granting newfound flexibility, also presents challenges. Employees may feel compelled to remain constantly connected to the workplace, particularly because digital communication tools enable virtual accessibility from anywhere. Research suggests a correlation between employee well-being and productivity regarding email and meeting practices. In this research, we conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) within a Belgian public administration to assess the impact of nudges (focusses) aimed at alleviating digital communication overload. The study seeks to assess how these nudges affect employee productivity and well-being. The intervention involv...
We study the consumption behavior of users of several popular mobile sportsbooks in a two-month longitudinal survey. We do not reveal our research question publicly to preserve the integrity of the trial. See the pre-analysis plan for details.