TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baert, By Stijn
A1  - Neyt, Brecht
A1  - Siedler, Thomas
A1  - Tobback, Ilse
A1  - Verhaest, Dieter
T1  - Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation
BT  - a field experiment
JF  - Economics of education review
N2  - Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job interview. To estimate a causal relationship, we conducted a randomised field experiment in which we sent 1248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants with internship experience have, on average, a 12.6% higher probability of being invited to a job interview.
KW  - internship
KW  - hiring
KW  - field experiment
KW  - human capital
KW  - signalling
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102141
SN  - 0272-7757
VL  - 83
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ackfeld, Viola
A1  - Rohloff, Tobias
A1  - Rzepka, Sylvi
T1  - Increasing personal data contributions for the greater public good
BT  - a field experiment on an online education platform
JF  - Behavioural public policy
N2  - Personal data increasingly serve as inputs to public goods. Like other types of contributions to public goods, personal data are likely to be underprovided. We investigate whether classical remedies to underprovision are also applicable to personal data and whether the privacy-sensitive nature of personal data must be additionally accounted for. In a randomized field experiment on a public online education platform, we prompt users to complete their profiles with personal information. Compared to a control message, we find that making public benefits salient increases the number of personal data contributions significantly. This effect is even stronger when additionally emphasizing privacy protection, especially for sensitive information. Our results further suggest that emphasis on both public benefits and privacy protection attracts personal data from a more diverse set of contributors.
KW  - field experiment
KW  - personal data
KW  - public good
KW  - privacy
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2021.39
SN  - 2398-063X
SN  - 2398-0648
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -