Title: Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?

Type Dataset Coffman, Lucas C., Featherstone, Clayton R., Kessler, Judd B. (2018): Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/JGE7FM

Authors: Coffman, Lucas C. (Harvard University) ; Featherstone, Clayton R. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) ; Kessler, Judd B. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) ; Coffman, Lucas C. (Harvard University) ; Featherstone, Clayton R. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) ; Kessler, Judd B. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) ;

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Summary

We show that the provision of social information influences a high-stakes decision and this influence persists over time. In a field experiment involving thousands of admits to Teach For America, those told about the previous year's matriculation rate are more likely to accept a teaching job, complete training, start, and return a second year. To show robustness, we develop a simple theory that identifies subgroups where we expect larger treatment effects and find our effect is larger in those subgroups. That social information can have a powerful, persistent effect on high-stakes behavior broadens its relevance for policy and theory.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/JGE7FM

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: July 11, 2018
• Updated: April 02, 2020

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

Format

electronic resource

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