%0 Report
        %A Gee, Laura Katherine
        %T The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10372
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10372
        %X This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by 3.5%. Women have a larger increase in their likelihood of finishing an application than men. Overall, adding this information to a job posting may offer a light-touch way to both increase application rates and alter the diversity of the applicant pool.
        %K ambiguity aversion
%K risk aversion
%K gender
%K big data
%K social information
%K labor search
%K field experiment
%K uncertainty
%K herding
%K competition