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Last Published
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February 12, 2021 09:49 AM
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After
February 19, 2021 10:18 AM
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Intervention Start Date
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February 15, 2021
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February 22, 2021
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Before
- Willingness to pay to work with a given coworker, rather than receive a random new one, both before and after actually working with this person
- Earnings per hour in the task
- Willingness to pay to be the guide vs. the tourist
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- Willingness to pay to work with a given coworker, rather than receive a random new one, both before and after actually working with this person
- Earnings per hour in the task
- Willingness to pay to reveal/hide symptoms of mental illness
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
My experiment revolves around an online, collaborative navigation task. Players on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) complete the task of guiding a tourist to a destination. They do four rounds of the navigation task divided into two batches of two rounds. In every round, guides see information about the tourist, with the key experimental treatment being whether this includes mental health. I measure this information in a baseline survey.
I elicit guides' willingness to pay to work with specific tourists before and after working with them and investigate how signals of mental health affect this demand. I also estimate how showing tourist mental health information to the guide, conditional on the tourist's actual mental health status, affects the guide's behavior in the task and ultimate earnings in the task.
I indirectly elicit willingness to pay to hide or reveal signals of mental health to potential guides, via eliciting willingness to pay to be the guide in future rounds and asking how this is affected by the information that might be revealed if they were the tourist. This is done in between the first and second batch of two rounds.
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My experiment revolves around an online, collaborative navigation task. Players on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) complete the task of guiding a tourist to a destination. They do four rounds of the navigation task divided into two batches of two rounds. In every round, guides see information about the tourist, with the key experimental treatment being whether this includes mental health. I measure this information in a baseline survey.
I elicit guides' willingness to pay to work with specific tourists before and after working with them and investigate how signals of mental health affect this demand. I also estimate how showing tourist mental health information to the guide, conditional on the tourist's actual mental health status, affects the guide's behavior in the task and ultimate earnings in the task.
I also elicit willingness to pay to hide or reveal signals of mental health to potential guides, alongside willingness to pay to reveal other information. This is done in between the first and second batch of two rounds.
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Before
This signal comprises the person’s self-reported recent experience of the most diagnostic symptoms of depression or anxiety. Specifically, I show the tourist’s answers to one of two 2-question survey instruments- the PHQ-2 for depression (major depressive disorder), and the GAD-2 for anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder). The depression instrument asks how often in the past two weeks the tourist has “had little interest in doing things” or felt “down, depressed or hopeless”; the anxiety instrument asks how often in the past two weeks they “felt nervous, anxious or on-edge” or were not “able to stop or control worrying”. To avoid experimenter demand effects from making mental health unusually salient, the signal of mental health is shown to the guide as part of a ‘profile’ of information about the tourist. This profile consists of a selected 4 to 6 of the tourist’s answers to questions from a baseline survey, which all participants take and which includes my mental health screens.
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After
This signal comprises the person’s self-reported recent experience of the most diagnostic symptoms of depression or anxiety. Specifically, I show the tourist’s answers to one of two 2-question survey instruments- the PHQ-2 for depression (major depressive disorder), and the GAD-2 for anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder). The depression instrument asks how often in the past two weeks the tourist has “had little interest in doing things” or felt “down, depressed or hopeless”; the anxiety instrument asks how often in the past two weeks they “felt nervous, anxious or on-edge” or were not “able to stop or control worrying”. To avoid experimenter demand effects from making mental health unusually salient, the signal of mental health is shown to the guide as part of a ‘profile’ of information about the tourist. This profile consists of a selected set (up to 6) of the tourist’s answers to questions from a baseline survey, which all participants take and which includes my mental health screens.
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