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While poverty has continued to persist, policy makers have implemented a range of anti-poverty transfer programs. Various strands of economic and psychological literature have documented both intended and unintended effects of anti-poverty transfers, including increased feelings of inferiority. This study extends the literature by examining how anti-poverty transfers may lead to such feelings of inferiority and hence also to lower investments. First, we develop a theoretical model in which individuals internalize signals from transfers. We predict that recipients of targeted transfers will negatively update their beliefs about their returns to investments and therefore reduce investments, compared to similar recipients of universal transfers. Next, we will test the model’s predictions w...
We study professionals’ motivations for providing information on a job's time demands to jobseekers. To do so, we conduct a survey experiment in which professionals are asked to provide information about their former employer to a hypothetical jobseeker. We randomize the characteristics (gender, desire to have children) of the jobseeker, the availability of information about jobseekers' preferences for information, and the recruitment motives of the professional. We will test how these conditions affect the professionals' time allocation among various topics.
We experimentally examine how the selection process of public officials (POs) impacts their corrupt activities via a fostered sense of entitlement. We propose that entitlement effects vary with the selection method, with ability-based selections possibly height- ening corruption, while prosociality-based ones might mitigate it. Our experimental design entails a two-stage process where the first stage involves an ability contest and a prosociality contest. The second stage is a bribery game where citizens in each group compete for a prize and can bribe the PO in charge. We control the sense of enti- tlement and its source by whether or not announcing which contest determines the appointment of POs. We analyze how various selection methods shape bribery and corruption through the lens of s...
This study investigates beliefs about signal interpretation in the labor market. In particular it aims at discovering inequities in information of optimal signals through an online sender receiver experiment to mimic real life job applications and hiring decisions.
We study how shifting the weight placed on different hiring criteria in an applicant recommendation algorithm shifts hiring and post-hiring outcomes for applicants and firms, using a field experiment on a large online jobs platform.
This study investigate self-presentation strategies and self-confidence beliefs between men and women when facing anti-discrimination measures, taking into account perceived self- and group discrimination. The study is conducted with LISS panel in the Netherlands using a vignette survey experiment.
This study aims to experimentally test whether information frictions are a significant barrier to social security participation in Jordan.
Workers and firms in low and middle-income countries operate in a credit-constrained environment characterized by asymmetric information. Firms are unaware of the productivity and trustworthiness of the worker, and workers are unsure whether the firms will pay them on time or at all. Neither the worker nor the firm can commit to a contract. Theory suggests that a consequence of these market failures and the firm's own credit constraints is that firms should offer back-loaded contracts. We will test this theoretical prediction in an experiment where we offer to hire workers for firms with different payment structures. Workers dislike back-loaded contracts because they can't trust the firm to abide by them (due to limited commitment on the firm side) and due to consumption credit constrai...
This study explores whether virtual intergroup contact enhances social cohesion between refugees and host communities. Given the rising number of refugees, tensions between refugees and host communities have intensified. While intergroup contact has been widely studied as a means to alleviate such tensions, the potential of virtual intergroup contact remains underexplored. To address this gap, we will conduct a randomized control trial in Bangladesh, a major host country for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. We developed an original online gaming application where participants collaborate in teams to harvest fruit from a shared farm. In the treatment groups, teams will include computer-generated players (bots) representing Rohingya refugees, enabling us to simulate virtual intergroup inte...
How do people reason and decide when it comes to voting for minimum wage increases? Do low-wage workers think that the higher rate, the better, or do they take into account disemployment effects of minimum wages while making their policy choices? For high-wage workers who would not be affected by the increases, do they care more about workers, small businesses, or the overall economy? In addition, are those factors different between liberal and conservative individuals? My study will shed some light on the mental maps that determine individuals' support for minimum wages. To further investigate those channels, I implement information provision treatments: providing people information on the bindingness of the minimum wage in their state and the unemployment rate in their state. Finally,...