Data and Code For: Do Financial Incentives Encourage Women to Apply for a Tech Job? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jan Feld, Victoria University Wellington; Edwin Ip, University of Exeter; Andreas Leibbrandt, Monash University; Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg

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Project Description

Summary: We conduct a natural field experiment to test whether offering financial incentives encourages more female jobseekers to complete their applications for a tech job. All eligible applicants for the job were invited to perform an online skill assessment. We randomized whether they were offered an incentive of up to $10 for completing the assessment, or not. We find no significant effect of the incentive for female applicants (or male applicants).

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Field Experiment; gender gap; intervention

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      J20 Demand and Supply of Labor: General
      J70 Labor Discrimination: General

Geographic Coverage: United States of America

Universe: Data collected from job applicants for real jobs advertised by the researchers.

Data Type(s): experimental data; observational data; other

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V1 [2023-05-09]

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