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Trial Status
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in_development
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completed
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Abstract
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How does banning firms from seeking applicants’ wage histories affect employment and salary offers? We implement a field experiment in which recruiters evaluate job applications that randomly include or exclude salary information questions and disclosures. The experiment mimics laws passed in Massachusetts, California, New York City, and Chicago banning these questions. Applicants also vary by gender and whether their previous salaries are high or low in the distribution of their previous firms salaries. We test several hypotheses about how salary disclosure might impact wage offers and gender inequality.
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How does banning firms from seeking applicants’ wage histories affect employment and salary offers? We implement a field experiment in which recruiters evaluate job applications that randomly include or exclude salary information questions and disclosures. The experiment mimics laws passed in Massachusetts, California, New York City, and Chicago banning these questions. Applicants also vary by gender and whether their previous salaries are high or low in the distribution of their previous firms salaries. We test several hypotheses about how salary disclosure might impact wage offers and gender inequality. We will also run one arm of the trial with subjects who are aware they are in an experiment. This takes the form of altered recruitment language that is clearly from academics and the addition of a signed informed consent form (everything else being the same) to test how this changes average outcomes.
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Last Published
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July 19, 2018 06:50 PM
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June 13, 2023 10:53 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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There will be three main treatments, which involve the salary history question the recruiters see on the job applications:
- Salary history question is mandatory
- Salary history question is optional
- Salary history question is not there
* When salary history is not there, in some treatments applicants will still disclose salary history "unprompted" in "additional information" section
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There will be three main treatments, which involve the salary history question the recruiters see on the job applications:
- Salary history question is mandatory
- Salary history question is optional
- Salary history question is not there
* When salary history is not there, in some treatments applicants will still disclose salary history "unprompted" in "additional information" section
There will also be an arm where subjects are aware they are in an experiment and are asked to sign informed consent forms, everything else being similar in that treatment arm.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Recruiters will be randomly given a set of 8 applications. This set of applications will fall into one of 11 unique potential treatments, some treatments will be run twice for a total of 14 potential treatments. Each set of applications x treatment will be evaluated by two recruiters. The 11 unique treatments involve whether the salary history is disclosed or not, as well as the mix of salaries that are disclosed conditional on disclosure. Recruiters will then respond to several questions about whether the applicant should be interviewed and the take-it-or-leave-it salary they should be offered, as well as some additional questions about salary offers, via an online survey.
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Recruiters will be randomly given a set of 8 applications. This set of applications will fall into one of 11 unique potential treatments, some treatments will be run twice for a total of 14 potential treatments. Each set of applications x treatment will be evaluated by two recruiters. The 11 unique treatments involve whether the salary history is disclosed or not, as well as the mix of salaries that are disclosed conditional on disclosure. Recruiters will then respond to several questions about whether the applicant should be interviewed and the take-it-or-leave-it salary they should be offered, as well as some additional questions about salary offers, via an online survey.
There will also be an arm where subjects are aware they are in an experiment and are asked to sign informed consent forms, everything else being similar in that treatment arm
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Planned Number of Clusters
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Approximately 112 recruiters
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Approximately 256 recruiters in the non-informed consent condition.
Approximately 56 recruiters in the informed consent condition
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Planned Number of Observations
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112 recruiters x 8 applications = 896 applications reviewed
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256 recruiters x 8 applications = 2048 applications reviewed non-informed consent
56 x 8 applications = 448 applications in informed consent
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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8 recruiters (64 applications reviewed) in each of 14 treatments - where some treatments are duplicates.
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2048 in non-informed consent spread across 14 treatments - where some treatments are duplicates.
448 in informed consent spread across 11 treatments - where some treatments are duplicates.
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Keyword(s)
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Labor
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Labor
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Secondary Outcomes (End Points)
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- Maximum offer we should accept from applicants
- Salary distribution for candidate suggested by recruiter
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- Maximum offer we should accept from applicants
- Salary distribution for candidate suggested by recruiter
- Expected outside offer distributions
- Expected outside offer range
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Building on Existing Work
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No
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