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Trial Start Date
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Before
April 20, 2024
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After
June 20, 2024
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Trial End Date
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Before
May 25, 2024
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After
July 31, 2024
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Last Published
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Before
April 25, 2024 11:59 AM
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After
June 19, 2024 06:23 AM
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Intervention Start Date
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Before
April 20, 2024
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After
June 20, 2024
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Intervention End Date
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Before
May 25, 2024
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After
July 31, 2024
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Primary Outcomes (Explanation)
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Before
Bonus earnings are paid all-or-nothing for a given work segment if participants performance was above a pre-announced threshold.
This threshold requires getting 75% of all images (critical/not-safe and non-critical/safe) correct and missing no more than 2 "critical/ not-safe" images.
Overall earnings consitute the sum of bonus earnings across all segments that a participant did.
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After
Bonus earnings are paid all-or-nothing for a given work segment if participants performance was above a pre-announced threshold. The per-segment bonus increases over time.
This threshold requires getting 75% of all images (critical/not-safe and non-critical/safe) correct and missing no more than 2 "critical/ not-safe" images.
Overall earnings constitute the sum of bonus earnings across all segments that a participant did.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Workers are hired to perform an attention-demanding task, and we allow them to voice a preference for resting or working. The choice will be randomly implemented for a subsample. Others will be assigned at random.
First, we study the effects of breaks on performance and well-being.
Second, we aim to understand what individuals prefer and how these preferences related to earnings – in both levels and effect sizes.
Furthermore, a separate sample of workers will be hired for a separate task that is designed to isolate their preferences over working and resting, holding earnings fixed.
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After
Workers are hired to perform an incentivized attention-demanding task, and we allow them to voice a preference for resting or working. The choice will be randomly implemented for a subsample. Others will be assigned at random.
First, we study the effects of breaks on performance and well-being.
Second, we aim to understand what individuals prefer and how these preferences related to earnings – in both levels and effect sizes.
Furthermore, a separate sample of workers will be hired for a separate task that is designed to isolate their preferences over working and resting, holding earnings fixed.
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Planned Number of Observations
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Before
N=1,000 individuals are included in the experiment. However, we will focus the analysis on 95% of the sample that were randomly assigned to the treatment. (For every individual, we observe 4 to 5 segments; and for every segment, we observe 300 image evaluations.)
N=400 individuals are included in the additional preference-only experiment.
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After
N=1,000 individuals are included in the experiment. However, we will focus the analysis on 95% of the sample that were randomly assigned to the treatment. (For every individual, we observe 4 to 5 segments; and for every segment, we observe 300 image evaluations.)
N=400 individuals are included in the additional preference-only experiment.
We focus the analysis on lower-income individuals that we pre-define during a screener before data is collected.
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Before
The break uses a 10-minute audio-script that is based on yoga nidra/ non-sleep deep rest.
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After
The break uses a 10-minute audio-script that is based on yoga nidra/ non-sleep deep rest. Compliance with listening to the audio script is enforced via pay that is contingent on manipulation check questions at the end.
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