Documents Jaber-Lopez, Tarek 2 results

"Think tanks and political leaders have raised concerns about the implications that the Covid-19 response and reconstruction might have on other social objectives that were setting the international agenda before the Covid-19 pandemic. We present evidence for eight consecutive weeks during April–May 2020 for Austria, testing the extent to which Covid-19 concerns substitute other social concerns such as the climate crisis or the protection of vulnerable sectors of the society. We measure behavior in a simple donation task where participants receive €3 that they can distribute between themselves and a list of charitable organizations, which vary between treatments. We consider initially a list of eight charities, including a broad set of social concerns. Results show that introducing the WHO Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund significantly reduces the sum of donations to the original eight charities. This derives from two effects: First, introducing the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund does not significantly change aggregate donations. Second, results point to a high support to the WHO Covid-19 Fund. Overall, our results indicate that donations to diverse social concerns are partially substituted by donations to the Covid-19 fund; yet, this substitution does not fully replace all other social concerns. Results are robust to a 10-fold increase in endowment, with decisions made over €30."

"While the last decade has shown great advances by women in the labor market, there are still many women who are vastly underrepresented in upper echelon of firms and earn lower salaries on aggregate. The literature suggests gender differences in preferences for competition, confidence, or risk aversion as possible explanations. The present study uses a laboratory experiment to investigate preferences for competition, the effect of feedback and information in a competitive setting when individuals can choose their task. Results indicate that providing ranking feedback and giving participants the option to compete in their preferred task encourages more women to enter competition. Furthermore, feedback affects reported beliefs and improves efficiency. This study provides evidence that manipulating the type of feedback might be an effective alternative to close the gender gap by increasing efficiency in an environment when individuals can choose their preferred task."