Competition Avoidance vs. Herding in Job Search: Evidence from Large-Scale Field Experiments on an Online Job Board

Thanks to Michael Bailey, Garrett Johnson, and participants at CODE’19, the INFORMS Marketing Science 2020 conference, the Advances in Field Experiments 2020 Conference, Field Experiments in Strategy, the NBER Summer Institute, MIT Sloan, Booth, University of Lausanne, and the 2022 winter Econometric Society Meetings. This research was facilitated through a research consulting agreement between some of the academic authors and Meta.