We study the employment opportunity of a college scholarship for high-achieving, low-income students in a labor market where disadvantaged groups are discriminated against. Using a correspondence audit-study we find that including information of being a scholarship recipient in a resume...

Previous research suggests that student evaluations of teacher performance are biased against women. We test this hypothesis on economics students in a randomized, double-blind experiment, set up in a natural educational setting. During the Covid-19 pandemic, teaching assistants moved online and...

Decisions relating to time may show some level of spatial heterogeneity. However, such spatial dependence tendency is often ignored in decision analyses especially time preferences, which defines the tendency for an individual to have strong preferences for present outcomes over delayed...

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...

Previous research shows that humans display complexity aversion. In this article, we test for the presence of complexity aversion and its determinants in the context of voluntary climate action, where individual choices interact with the complex regulatory framework of the EU Emission Trading...

Who opts for informal work arrangements in times of severe economic uncertainty, and why? While extensive research has been conducted on the effects of informality on the economy, the empirical evidence about which employees enter the informal labour market remains mixed. This study elicits...

This study examines whether charitable giving increases if donors have more choice about how their donations are used. In a field experiment, employees of large Albanian companies were asked to donate to projects administered by Down Syndrome Albania. Treatments varied in whether participants...

The increasing number of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, which now exceeds 2.9 million, has raised concerns about their socioeconomic integration. We propose a novel approach to studying discrimination in the housing rental market. We conducted a multi-purpose field experiment with 574 real...

Social interactions have become crucial and varied in the digital economy. However, the impact of the structural diversity of social network connections on users' decisions is still not well understood. Accurate measurements and rigorous causal evidence have been lacking, making it difficult to...