The More you Know: Information Effects in Job Application Rates by Gender in a Large Field Experiment

Laura Gee ()

No 780, Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University from Department of Economics, Tufts University

Abstract: This paper presents the results from a field experiment which varies the amount of information seen by two million job seekers when viewing 100,000 job postings on a large online job posting website. The information seen is the true number of people who previously started an application. This intervention increases the likelihood a person will start/finish an application by 2-5%, representing a potential increase of thousands of applications per day. Beyond increasing applications, the treatment also changes the makeup of the applicant pool by increasing the number of women who apply.Firms in industries like high tech and finance that are highly represented on this job posting website, may be particularly interested in this low cost, light touch intervention to increase the number of female applicants.

Date: 2014
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