| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After June 15, 2019 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 2,277 students |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 2,277 students |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After Control: 456 Basic information: 455 Earnings information: 460 AEA video: 455 OSU video: 451 |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After Yes |
| Field Restricted Data Contact | Before | After https://registrar.oregonstate.edu/data‐requests |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.3886/E192268V3 |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After January 30, 2020 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After We assess whether light-touch interventions can increase the proportion of women who study economics. Over 2,000 students were randomly assigned to receive a message with basic information about the economics major, the basic message combined with an emphasis on the rewarding careers or financial returns associated with the major, or no message. The basic message increased the proportion of male students majoring in economics by 2 percentage points, equivalent to the control mean. We find no significant effects for female students. Extrapolating to the full sample, the basic message would nearly double the male/female ratio among economics majors. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Pugatch, Todd, and Elizabeth Schroeder. 2021. "Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 123-27. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/pandp.20211024 |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After We assess whether a light-touch intervention can increase socioeconomic and racial diversity in undergraduate Economics. We randomly assigned over 2200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message combined with an emphasis on the rewarding careers or financial returns associated with the major; or no message. Messages increased the proportion of first generation students majoring in Economics by five percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors for first generation students. Suggestive evidence indicates the effects may be driven by first generation students who were not also underrepresented minorities. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Pugatch, T. & Schroeder, E. (2023) A simple nudge increases socioeconomic diversity in undergraduate Economics. Economic Inquiry, 1–21. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13172 |