TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gee, Laura Katherine
        TI  - The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
        PY  - 2016/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10372
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10372
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - ambiguity aversion
KW  - risk aversion
KW  - gender
KW  - big data
KW  - social information
KW  - labor search
KW  - field experiment
KW  - uncertainty
KW  - herding
KW  - competition
        ER  -