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Registration

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Trial Status in_development completed
Trial End Date June 30, 2020 August 31, 2020
Last Published April 17, 2020 09:31 AM January 12, 2021 09:05 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date August 31, 2020
Data Collection Complete Yes
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations Main study: 929 Follow-up: 302
Public Data URL https://github.com/MarcKaufmann/narrow-bracketing-in-work-choices
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL https://github.com/MarcKaufmann/narrow-bracketing-in-work-choices
Data Collection Completion Date August 20, 2020
Is data available for public use? Yes
Intervention End Date May 31, 2020 August 31, 2020
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Papers

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Paper Abstract Many important economic outcomes result from cumulative effects of smaller choices, so the best outcomes require accounting for other choices at each decision point. We document narrow bracketing — the neglect of such accounting — in work choices in a pre-registered experiment on MTurk: bracketing changes average willingness to work by 13-28%. In our experiment, broad bracketing is so simple to implement that narrow bracketing cannot possibly be due to optimal conservation of cognitive resources, so it must be suboptimal. We jointly estimate disutility of work and bracketing, finding gender differences in convexity of disutility, but not in bracketing.
Paper Citation Fallucchi, F., & Kaufmann, M. (2021). Narrow Bracketing in Work Choices. Working Paper.
Paper URL https://trichotomy.xyz/publication/narrow-bracketing-in-work-choices/narrow-bracketing-in-work-choices.pdf
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Post Trial Documents

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Description Working paper
File
Narrow_Bracketing_in_Effort_Choices.pdf
MD5: 2ae9eb43c3d2bbb8079c8e81f675ec8f
SHA1: a35054bd1273b40ca7f9e3ee7bf0a06f2b6ef8a5
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