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Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice in Experienced Advisors

Last registered on March 16, 2026
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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice in Experienced Advisors
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0017915
Initial registration date
March 09, 2026

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
March 16, 2026, 6:53 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Roel van Veldhuizen
Affiliation
Lund University
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Juliana Silva Goncalves
PI Affiliation
University of Sydney
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PI Name
Rigissa Megalokomonou
PI Affiliation
Monash University
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2026-03-10
End date
2026-04-30
Keywords
Education, Gender, Labor
Additional Keywords
Online Experiment, Advice
JEL code(s)
J16, C91
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial is based on or builds upon one or more prior RCTs.
Abstract
People often rely on advice from e.g., parents, teachers and colleagues to make important career decisions. In a first pre-registered data collection effort (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/13803), we used an online experiment to study gender differences in career advice. For this purpose, we asked participants in the role of advisers to give advice to "workers" (other participants in the experiment). In this second wave of data collection, we intend to replicate our first wave in a sample of participants with experience in management or teaching. We also append our study with an additional set of vignette tasks.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Megalokomonou, Rigissa, Juliana Silva Goncalves and Roel van Veldhuizen. 2026. "Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice in Experienced Advisors." AEA RCT Registry. March 16. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.17915-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
See the design section below.
Intervention (Hidden)
See the design section below.
Intervention Start Date
2026-03-10
Intervention End Date
2026-04-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Advice
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
See the pre-analysis plan for a detailed explanation.

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
See the pre-analysis plan
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)
See the pre-analysis plan

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We conduct a three-part experiment. In session 1, participants in the role of workers work on a math and science quiz. Upon completing the quiz, they indicate their confidence in several ways, forming a worker “portfolio”. In session 2, a different set of participants in the role of advisers sees the portfolio of six workers and advises each worker whether they should go for an advanced (A) or a basic (B) version of the task. In session 3, each worker receives the advice from one adviser and decides which of the two versions of the task to pursue. In addition, advisers in session 2 also respond to 12 advice vignettes that are not related to the workers in this experiment.
Experimental Design Details
We conduct a three-part experiment. In session 1, participants in the role of workers work on a math and science quiz. Upon completing the quiz, they indicate their confidence in several ways, forming a worker “portfolio”. In session 2, a different set of participants in the role of advisers sees the portfolio of six workers and advises each worker whether they should go for an advanced (A) or a basic (B) version of the task. In session 3, each worker receives the advice from one adviser and decides which of the two versions of the task to pursue. In addition, advisers in session 2 also respond to 12 advice vignettes that are not related to the workers in this experiment.
Randomization Method
A computer. We randomize which 12 out of 24 possible vignettes advisers see. Some of our key tests rely on between-vignette comparisons, which happen both between-subject and within-subject. Other tests will compare the results between this wave and our first wave (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/13803/) baseline treatment, where in some sense our first wave serves as a control treatment to our current data collection effort.
Randomization Unit
The individual, as per the above.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
525 advisers and 105 workers.
Sample size: planned number of observations
525 advisers and 105 workers.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
525 advisers and 105 workers in our baseline treatment. Some of our tests will compare the results between this wave and our first wave (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/13803/) baseline treatment. See the pre-analysis plan for more details.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
See the pre-analysis plan
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Ethics Committee of the University of Sydney
IRB Approval Date
2025-12-17
IRB Approval Number
HREC Approval No.: 2022/872
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

Pre-analysis plan

MD5: cda8175a60fb79915a4634f7ce3a5180

SHA1: a9c2905b1b408ffd78d8fc93477888b8bc71e457

Uploaded At: March 09, 2026

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

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