AEA RCT Registry

Field	Before	After
Trial Status	in_development	completed
Last Published	April 06, 2022 09:09 AM	October 12, 2022 02:02 PM
Study Withdrawn		No
Intervention Completion Date		April 11, 2020
Data Collection Complete		Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		913 businesses
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?		No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations		1,095 hiring managers
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms		234 managers asked questions about willingness to hire without wage subsidy, 204 asked questions about willingness to hire with 10% subsidy, 208 asked questions about willingness to hire with 25% subsidy, 215 asked questions about willingness to hire with 50% subsidy, and 234 asked questions about willingness to hire with 100% subsidy.
Is there a restricted access data set available on request?		No
Program Files		Yes
Program Files URL		https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SDX3XM
Data Collection Completion Date		April 11, 2020
Is data available for public use?		No

Field	Before	After
Paper Abstract		We experimentally test several approaches to increasing the demand for workers with a criminal record on a nationwide staffing platform by addressing potential downside risk and productivity concerns. The staffing platform asked hiring managers to make a series of hypothetical hiring decisions that affected whether workers with a criminal record could accept their jobs in the future. We find that 39% of businesses in our sample are willing to work with individuals with a criminal record at baseline, which rises to over 50% when businesses are offered crime and safety insurance, a single performance review, or a limited background check covering just the past year. Wage subsidies can achieve similar increases but at a substantially higher cost. Based on our findings, the staffing platform relaxed the criminal background check requirement and offered crime and safety insurance to interested businesses.
Paper Citation		Zoë Cullen, Will Dobbie, Mitchell Hoffman, Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022;, qjac029, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac029
Paper URL		https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac029

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