Selection by Leisure: A Quasi-Field Experiment on Self-Selection into Lab Experiments by Competitive Attitude

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ong ◽  
Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Lab Experiments

Studying Abroad as a Sorting Criterion in the Recruitment Process: A Field Experiment Among German Employers

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Job Interviews ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Available Information

As the experience of studying abroad can signal general and transnational human capital, it is considered to be increasingly important for professional careers, particularly in the context of economies’ internationalization. However, studies using graduate surveys face problems of self-selection and studies on employers’ opinions face problems of social desirability. To overcome endogeneity problems and to investigate the employers’ decisions directly, a particular field experimental design of a correspondence test was applied. Two hundred thirty-one applications of a real student with systematically varied studying abroad and professional working experience were randomly sent out for true internship offers of German employers. The time provided for the response and invitations for job interviews was measured, and additional publicly available information on the employers were collected. Results show that studying abroad decreases the days required until response and slightly increases the probability of invitation. However, at least in this field experiment, studying abroad is considered to be more of a sorting criterion by the employers with foreign branches than by those without.

Optimizing Price Menus for Duration Discounts: A Subscription Selectivity Field Experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1181-1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longxiu Tian ◽  
Fred M. Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Self Selection

To optimize price menus for duration discounts, both randomized field experiments and careful modeling of consumer self-selection are critical.

Self-Selection of Peers and Performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Kiessling ◽  
Jonas Radbruch ◽  
Sebastian Schaube
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Peer Effects ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
Framed Field Experiment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Selection Of

This paper studies how the presence of peers and different peer assignment rules—self-selection versus random assignment—affect individual performance. Using a framed field experiment, we find that the presence of a randomly assigned peer improves performance by 28% of a standard deviation (SD), whereas self-selecting peers induces an additional 15%–18% SD improvement in performance. Our results document peer effects in multiple characteristics and show that self-selection changes these characteristics. However, a decomposition reveals that variations in the peer composition contribute only little to the performance differences across peer assignment rules. Rather, we find that self-selection has a direct effect on performance. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, decision analysis.

scholarly journals The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 839-851
Author(s):  
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim ◽  
Seonghoon Kim ◽  
Thomas T. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Selection Effects ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Career Incentives

We study how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi. First, recent secondary school graduates were hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, half of the workers with career incentives randomly received wage incentives, and half of the workers with wage incentives randomly received career incentives. Career incentives attract higher-performing workers than wage incentives do, but they do not increase productivity conditional on selection. Wage incentives increase productivity for those recruited through career incentives. Observable characteristics are limited in explaining selection effects of entry-level workers.

scholarly journals Self‐selection bias in a field experiment: Recruiting subjects under different payment schemes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noemí Herranz‐Zarzoso ◽  
Nikolaos Georgantzis ◽  
Gerardo Sabater‐Grande
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Payment Schemes

scholarly journals (Why) do selfish people self-select in economics?

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Lanteri
Keyword(s):  
Self Selection ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Junior Students

Several game-theoretical lab experiments helped establish the belief that economists are more selfish than non-economists. Since differences in behaviour between experiment participants who are students of economics and those who are not may be observed among junior students as well, it is nowadays widely believed that the origin of the greater selfishness is not the training they undergo, but self-selection. In other words, selfish people voluntarily enrol in economics. Yet, I argue that such explanation is unsatisfactory for several reasons. I also suggest alternative explanations for the observed differences, which have been so far unduly disregarded.

scholarly journals The framing of charitable giving: A field experiment at bottle refund machines in Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-126
Author(s):  
Robert Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Warm Glow ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Strategic Framing ◽  
Modelling Approaches

This article investigates the decision of consumers at bottle refund machines to either reclaim their bottle deposit or to donate the refund to a non-profit organization. The study documents the unique pre-intervention data on donating behaviour and introduces a field experiment to increase donation levels. The design comprised the strategic framing of the situation by highlighting different cues about the normative, descriptive and local expectations of charitable giving as well as cues about the warm glow of donating money. The experiment took place in 20 supermarkets in Germany and lasted for 12 months. By varying the experimental design and using different modelling approaches, the study arrives at the conclusion that individuals largely act consistent with the assumption having self-regarding preferences that are stable and difficult to change. Hence, our pre-test and post-intervention data stand in sharp contrast to results from lab experiments.

Hiding Gifts Behind the Veil of Vouchers: On the Effect of Gift Vouchers Versus Direct Gifts in Conditional Promotions

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Ding ◽  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Intention To Purchase ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Direct Association ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Veil

To boost sales, marketers often conduct promotions that offer gifts conditional on the purchase of a focal product. Such promotions can present gifts in different formats: customers could be informed that they will receive a gift directly or that they will receive a voucher entitling them to a gift. Normatively speaking, the two formats are equivalent, as a voucher’s value is identical to that of the gift it represents. Yet this article suggests that promotion format (voucher vs. direct gift) influences consumers’ intention to purchase the focal product. Five lab experiments and one field experiment reveal that, compared with presenting a gift directly, introducing a voucher attenuates the influence of gift value on purchase decisions, decreasing purchase intentions for promotions offering high-value gifts but increasing purchase intentions for promotions offering low-value gifts. This effect occurs because vouchers break the direct association between the focal product and the gift, reducing people’s tendency to compare the gift’s value with the focal product’s value. The effect observed can be attenuated by increasing the salience of gift value.

scholarly journals Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Albert Vranka ◽  
Marek Hudik ◽  
Nikola Frollova ◽  
Štěpán Bahník ◽  
Markéta Sýkorová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Reporting Scheme ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Manual Reporting ◽  
Selection Of

Does the choice of an environment where cheating is possible lead to its escalation? We analyzed behavior of employees (N = 284) hired to perform a task online. In the manual reporting (MR), employees could overreport the number of hours worked. In the automatic reporting (AR), the hours were counted automatically, making cheating impossible. Two-thirds of the participants were given a chance to choose the reporting scheme, the rest were assigned to the MR directly. Although we found that people in MR slightly overreported the hours worked, employees who chose MR did not overreport their hours more than those assigned to MR at random. Moreover, participants lower in honesty-humility were not more likely to choose MR; only those higher in emotionality were. The results show that even when enabled to cheat, online workers reported their hours worked honestly and the possibility for cheaters to select cheating enabling environments may not always lead to an increase of dishonesty in organizations.

scholarly journals Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 101730
Author(s):  
Marek Vranka ◽  
Marek Hudík ◽  
Nikola Frollová ◽  
Štěpán Bahník ◽  
Markéta Sýkorová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Selection Of
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