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Intervention (Public) We randomly assign participants to four treatments, which vary in the types of anti-discrimination measures that are used during the hiring process. We randomly assign participants to four vignette treatments, which vary given the anti-discrimination measures used during the hiring process.
Primary Outcomes (End Points) Self-presentation strategies shown in written texts, self-evaluation beliefs given answers, strategy and chance evaluation across treatments Self-presentation strategies in the open-ended text answers and self-evaluation beliefs of answers (6-point Likert scale).
Primary Outcomes (Explanation) Self-presentation strategies include: (1) Readability of texts (2) Semantic Similarity between written texts and (3) Linguistic styles of text (correlates of Personality Traits) (LIWC 22 dictionary categories)
Was the treatment clustered? Yes No
Planned Number of Observations 1800 subjects who are working adults 1800 working adults between the age of 18 and 54, representative of the Dutch working population
Intervention (Hidden) We have four treatments regarding the recruitment scenarios: Human, Automated, Human ft. pro-diversity organization, and Automation ft. pro-diversity organization. We have four treatments regarding the recruitment scenarios: Human recruitment, Automated recruitment, Human recruitment ft. pro-diversity organization, and Automated recruitment ft. pro-diversity organization.
Secondary Outcomes (End Points) (1) Self-evaluation of interview chance (0 to 100 slider), (2) self-comparison to others (0 to 100 slider), and (3) counter-factual chance evaluation (0 -100 slider). Both (1) and (2) will be evaluated alone and then benchmarked against overall self-confidence in the job (0-100 sliders). These are measured before the vignette treatments.
Pi as first author No Yes
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