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How Much Can I Make? Insights on Belief Updating in the Labor Market (with Kenneth Chan)

How do people update their beliefs when encountering new information during job search? We analyze data from a recent government survey (the Survey of Consumer Expectations) and find evidence consistent with motivated reasoning and base-rate neglect.

Recommended citation: Brown, Sebastian and Kenneth Chan. (2024). "How Much Can I Make? Insights on Belief Updating in the Labor Market." Working Paper. http://sebastiannbrown.github.io/files/JobSearchLearning.pdf

Posting Pay Transparency and Worker Outcomes: Evidence from Recent US State Laws (with Thomas Fullagar)

How does pay transparency in job postings affect worker outcomes? We use a staggered difference-in-differences approach to study the effect of recent state-level laws in the US requiring requiring employers to list the expected wages in job listings.

Recommended citation: Brown, Sebastian and Thomas Fullagar. (2024). "Posting Pay Transparency and Worker Outcomes: Evidence from Recent US State Laws" Working Paper.

The Role of Labor Market Information in Filling Vacancies

Project studying the value of labor market information to employers and employer learning patterns, as well as the effect of the same on job postings. Work in progress.

Learning to Quit: Biased Learning and Job Quitting Decisions

Presentation of idea for biased learning and job quitting model and experiment.

Learning through Job Search: Insights on Belief Updating

Conference graduate poster presentation of working paper on job search learning.

How Much Can I Make? Insights on Belief Updating in the Labor Market

Interdisciplinary conference presentation of working paper on labor market belief updating.

How Much Can I Make? Insights on Belief Updating in the Labor Market

Economics alumni conference presentation of current draft of job market paper.

Behavioral Labor Economics

This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.

Behavioral Personnel Economics

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