Shamyla this american life12/27/2023 ![]() The smell of pine and juniper filled the car as they drove down the mountain.Įverett sang "chestnut's roasting on an open fire" in his best lounge singer croon. Pam brushed off Anne Marie's snowsuit and buckled her in the front so she wouldn't get carsick. The Jimmy was parked where the trail split off in the logging road, and Everett opened the back to throw the tools and boughs in, then rope the tree to the roof with nylon cords. She seemed to have decided not to say anything more about the tree, which was fine with Everett. Pam, his wife, followed with an armload of pine boughs and juniper branches. The bushy side was for decorations.Įverett dragged it through the snow by the trunk, and his daughter, Anne Marie clung to the upper branches and rode on her stomach. The branchless side could go against the living room wall. It was a tall Douglas fir, bare on one side where it had crowded out its neighbor. His wife said it was lopsided and looked like a bush. Brenoe (UZH) and C.Everett thought it was a good tree. ![]() Leonardi (Statale di Milano)Į xperimentation and career choices: evidence from Swiss apprenticeships (piloting) Unwilling to reskill? Evidence from a survey experiment with Italian jobseekers (data collection) Memory, Trauma and Economic Behavior Among Refugees: Experimental Evidence from Teaching “Positive Imagery” in Ethiopia (analysis) Value Dissonance at Work - draft available soon!īeyond Bonuses: the incentive effect of a prosocial initiative on bankers (analysis) Our results suggests that training which ignores the emotional content of economic activity is not as effective as that which leverages the emotions inherent in economic decisions.įunding: IPA P&R Exploratory Grant, IGA-Rockefeller Research and Impact Fund, J-PAL PPE, IPA P&R, J-PAL GEA Improved entrepreneurial outcomes appear to be driven by enhanced ability to obtain credit, build savings, and undertake creative marketing with customers and competitors. Women in the imagery training improve along all margins compared to men, and are negatively impacted by traditional business training. For individuals with high levels of baseline trauma, imagery addresses their deficit in positive imagery. In follow-up surveys conducted 8 and 14 months after the intervention, those who participated in the imagery training demonstrated a strengthened capacity for using visualization and significantly improved economic outcomes compared to the placebo. Second, we design a training curriculum to teach visualization skills, and test it using a randomized control trial in which the same entrepreneurs were given access to either the imagery-based entrepreneurial training program, a placebo program of traditional business skills training, or no program at all. First, using a data set of roughly 2,000 would-be entrepreneurs in Colombia, we show that measures of imagery use correlate strongly and positively with economic outcomes. We also highlight that the use and impact of this ability is highly heterogeneous depending on people’s life experiences, and it has the potential to benefit vulnerable populations the most. We show evidence of the path and importance of imagery-based decision making for the vital economic activity of entrepreneurship. ![]() Recent work in neuroscience and psychology has underscored the impact of visualizing future scenarios on decision making, via mental simulation, emotional amplification, and consolidation of memory. Learning to see the world’s opportunities: The impact of mental imagery on entrepreneurial action Out-of-trial surveys suggest that the experimental information changed the expected premium on the job for talented relative to untalented workers. The net impact of the informational intervention is positive for the employer even after accounting for spillovers on female applicants and hires. In contrast, being informed of a lower share of high evaluations encourages men to apply, improves the quality of male applicants and enables the employer to hire and retain more talented men. I find that a male photograph does not affect men's applications. ![]() I introduce exogenous variation in the content of recruitment messages to potential applicants in two ways: showing a photograph of a current worker (randomized to be a man or a woman) and providing information on the share of workers who got high performance evaluations in a past year (randomized to be higher or lower). I embed a field experiment within the UK-wide recruitment program for social workers to analyze barriers to men's entry into traditionally female-dominated sectors. IZA Discussion Paper 14083 - UniCredit Foundation Best Paper Award on Gender Economics (2021) Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs ![]()
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