Flexible working time arrangements and gender

Last registered on August 19, 2021

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Flexible working time arrangements and gender
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0007642
Initial registration date
May 06, 2021

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
May 07, 2021, 10:34 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated
August 19, 2021, 5:13 AM EDT

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
FAME | GRAPE

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
GRAPE | FAME
PI Affiliation
GRAPE | FAME

Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2021-05-06
End date
2021-08-09
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Across economies, flexibility of working hours responding to workers' needs is rare, whereas employers' expectations of availability for irregular hours remains common. Against this background, Goldin conjecture emerges, that difference in wages between men and women essentially reflects the difference in flexibility rather than only taste based discrimination. We propose a framed field online experiment with vignettes to test empirically the validity of a conjecture that gender wage gap is in fact merely an inflexibility penalty. We elicit wage premium/penalty due to working time flexibility, manipulating information about who initiated the change in working time arrangements.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Smyk, Magdalena, Joanna Tyrowicz and Lucas van der Velde. 2021. "Flexible working time arrangements and gender." AEA RCT Registry. August 19. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.7642-1.1
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2021-05-07
Intervention End Date
2021-08-09

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Primary outcome is subject's answer whether wage should change due to change in time flexibility and on how much.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We use vignette experiment technique. Our subjects are presented short stories on three fictional characters and a change from regular to flexible working hours. Stories differ between subjects by gender of a character and initiator (worker vs. employer). Participants are asked if and how the change in working hours should affect worker wage.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization will be provided by the online survey tool used to conduct the experiment.
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
There are no clusters planned
Sample size: planned number of observations
800-900 participants
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
There are two dimensions of planned treatments (each with two levels), so for each treatment around 200 participants are planned.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
GRAPE Ethics Comittee
IRB Approval Date
2021-05-06
IRB Approval Number
N/A

Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
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Reports & Other Materials