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Should Workplace Programs be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship / Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, Christopher T. Stanton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandvik, Jason.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29148.
- NBER working paper series no. w29148
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- In a field experiment, we find large differences in productivity treatment effects between voluntary and mandatory workplace mentorship programs. A significant portion of this difference is due to the best employees opting into the program when it is voluntary and these employees having the smallest treatment effects. Our findings suggest that pilot programs run on a voluntary group may obfuscate large potential gains. In our setting, the firm cannot rely on self-selection to help with program allocation because employees that benefit the most from the program are the least likely to participate. Our findings have implications for program evaluation, experimental design, productivity dispersion, and inequality.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2021.
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