Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Mas, Alexandre; Welch, Keesler; Charpentier, Danielle

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“…An alternative interpretation is that 8 percent of decision makers made "wrong" choices because they were inattentive. This share is indeed similar to the 13 percent of people who make "wrong" (i.e., dominated) choices in the labor market experiment by Mas and Pallais (2016). The finding from NoName indicates that choices were clearly guided by the relative profitability of the candidates and not by a day preference.…”

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The Price of Prejudice

Hedegaard

Tyran

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is common but highly responsive to the "price of prejudice," i.e., to the opportunity cost of choosing a less productive worker on ethnic grounds. Discriminators are on average willing to forego 8 percent of their earnings to avoid a coworker of the other ethnic type. The evidence suggests that animus rather than statistical discrimination explains observed behavior. (JEL C93, J15, J24, J31, J71)

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“…In terms of methodology, our approach is similar toMas and Pallais (2016) who experimentally vary wages to elicit preferences for alternative work arrangements.…”

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The Price of Prejudice

Hedegaard

Tyran

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…There is growing evidence that the two approaches of using stated choices or actual choices yield similar preference estimates. Mas and Pallais (2017) find that the stated approach yields preference estimates for alternative work arrangements that are similar to those from revealed choices, and Wiswall and Zafar (2018) find that preferences for workplace amenities recovered from stated hypothetical choices are predictive of actual subsequent real-world choices. 2 Therefore, it seems that the stated approach yields meaningful responses when the hypothetical scenarios presented to respondents are realistic and relevant for them, as is the case for the school choice scenarios that we consider.…”

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University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes, and Financial Constraints

Delavande

Zafar

2014

SSRN Journal

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We investigate the determinants of students' university choice in Pakistan, with a focus on monetary returns, non-pecuniary factors enjoyed at school, and financial constraints.To mitigate the identification problem concerning the separation of preferences, expectations and market constraints, we use rich data on subjective expectations, with direct measures of financial constraints, to estimate a life-cycle model of school choice jointly with school-specific expectations of dropping out. We find that labor market prospects play a small role. Instead, non-pecuniary outcomes, such as the school's ideology, are the major determinants. Policy simulations suggest that relaxing financial constraints would have large welfare gains. JEL Codes: D81; D84; I21; I23. and from participants at various conferences and seminars. We are enormously indebted to our local field teams and participating institutions for without their assistance this project would not have reached its conclusion. Funding for data collection through a RAND Independent Research and Development grant is gratefully acknowledged. Delavande acknowledges funding from the Economic and Social Research Council Research Centre on Micro-social Change. d Regime with admission requirements, where a student is "admitted" only if expected graduation rank is in the top half. e Regime where the ideology of each school is made homogeneous (and is set to the IU ideology). f The model-based predicted probability of choosing each school (averaged across respondent). g Statistics in this panel are computed by assigning the student to the school with the highest predicted probability in that regime. h The median age 30 earnings change equivalent that would result in the change in utility, as a result of the change in school choice relative to the baseline case. i The equivalent change in parents' approval (on a 0-100 scale) that would result in the change in utility, as a result of the change in school choice relative to the baseline case. Mean [Median] reported. j Proportion of students who experience a utility loss under the counterfactual policy, relative to the baseline. k Proportion of students who switch to a different school under the counterfactual policy, relative to the baseline.

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“…He finds that when a neighbouring state places caps on non-economic 44 See Holmås (2002), Askildsen, Baltagi and Holmås (2003) and Andreassen, Di Tommaso and Strøm (2017). 45 For example, Mas and Pallais (2017) find that call centre workers are willing to give up 20 per cent of their salary to avoid a schedule set by an employer on short notice and 8 per cent for the option to work from home. This suggests that non-pay levers might be important in boosting nurse labour supply.…”

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Medical Labour Supply and the Production of Healthcare

2019

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Medical labour markets are important because of their size and the importance of medical labour in the production of healthcare and in subsequent patient outcomes. We present a summary of important trends in the UK medical labour market, and we review the latest research on factors that determine medical labour supply and the impact of labour on patient outcomes. The topics examined include: the responsiveness of labour supply to changes in wages, regulation and other incentives; factors that determine the wide variation in physician practice and style; and the effect of teams and management quality on patient outcomes. This literature reveals that while labour supply is relatively unresponsive to changes in wages, medical personnel do react strongly to other incentives, even in the short run. This is likely to have consequences for the quality of care provided to patients. We set out a series of unanswered questions in the UK setting, including: the importance of non‐financial incentives in recruiting and retaining medical staff; how individuals can be incentivised to work in particular specialties and regions; and how medical teams can be best organised to improve care.

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Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

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The Price of Prejudice

The Price of Prejudice

University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes, and Financial Constraints

Medical Labour Supply and the Production of Healthcare

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