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Last Published
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January 11, 2019 04:47 AM
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May 21, 2019 01:44 PM
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Intervention (Public)
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We inform workers of a German crowdworking platform who are about to work on a task that their activities on the website will be subject to close monitoring. We compare the willingess to pay to avoid being monitored to a control group of workers who do receive any information with respect to monotoring of workers' activities.
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We inform workers of a student crowdworking platform who are about to work on a task that their activities on the website will be subject to close monitoring. We compare the willingess to pay to avoid being monitored to a control group of workers who do receive any information with respect to monotoring of workers' activities.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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We run the experiment on a German crowdworking platform. The subjects are registered workers and are not informed about the fact that they participate in an experiment. The experiment is framed as a regular task concerned with the framing and presentation of online minijobs. We inform workers that they can choose between two different versions of a task, a default version and an alternative. In the treatment group, workers are informed that if they perform the default version of the task, they will be subject to close monitoring. In the control group, no information regarding monitoring is provided. Applying the BDM method, we then elicit workers’ WTP for switching to the alternative version of the task. Workers then work on the task selected by the mechanism.
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We run the experiment on a student crowdworking platform. The subjects are students registered at the platform. We do not inform the subjects about the fact that they participate in an experiment. The experiment is framed as a regular task concerned with the framing and presentation of online minijobs. We inform workers that they can choose between two different versions of a task, a default version and an alternative. In the treatment group, workers are informed that if they perform the default version of the task, they will be subject to close monitoring. In the control group, no information regarding monitoring is provided. Applying the BDM method, we then elicit workers’ WTP for switching to the alternative version of the task. Workers then work on the task selected by the mechanism.
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Randomization Method
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On-the-fly randomization using python. Randomization into treatment and control takes place once workers arrive at the web page hosting the experiment.
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On-the-fly randomization using python. Randomization into treatment and control takes place once workers arrive at the web page hosting the experiment. We plan to stratify according to gender.
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Workers of a German crowdworking platform reveal their willingness to pay (WTP) to switch from the default version to an alternative version of a task. The WTP is elicited using the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (1964) method (BDM method). In the control group, the instructions do not touch upon the issue of monitoring. In contrast, workers in the treatment group are informed that if they perform the default version of the task, their activities on the website will be subject to close monitoring.
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Workers of a student crowdworking platform reveal their willingness to pay (WTP) to switch from the default version to an alternative version of a task. The WTP is elicited using the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (1964) method (BDM method). In the control group, the instructions do not touch upon the issue of monitoring. In contrast, workers in the treatment group are informed that if they perform the default version of the task, their activities on the website will be subject to close monitoring.
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