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Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGE7FM
 
Creator Coffman, Lucas C.
Featherstone, Clayton R.
Kessler, Judd B.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We show that the provision of social information influences a high-stakes decision and this influence persists over time. In a field experiment involving thousands of admits to Teach For America, those told about the previous year's matriculation rate are more likely to accept a teaching job, complete training, start, and return a second year. To show robustness, we develop a simple theory that identifies subgroups where we expect larger treatment effects and find our effect is larger in those subgroups. That social information can have a powerful, persistent effect on high-stakes behavior broadens its relevance for policy and theory.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres