Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Measuring What is Top of Mind

“…Open-ended questions are increasingly used to mitigate concerns about experimenter demand effects. Specifically, respondents can be asked to guess the hypothesis that the researchers are testing in an open-ended question included at the end of the experiment (Andre et al, 2023a;Chopra et al, 2024b;Jäger et al, 2024;Roth et al, 2024a). For example, participants are asked: "What do you think is the hypothesis that the researchers aim to test?"…”