Pay Beliefs and the Amenity-Pay Tradeoff

Alfred L{\o}vgren; Manudeep Bhuller; Martin Eckhoff Andresen

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Pay Beliefs and the Amenity-Pay Tradeoff

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Pith's one-line read Full disclosure of pay for jobs under consideration raises the pay of chosen jobs by about 4% and aligns willingness-to-pay estimates with full-information benchmarks.

desk verdict The experiment cleanly separates short-run belief shifts from persistent disclosure effects on stated tradeoffs, but external validity to real job choices remains the main open issue. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.02503 v3 pith:SVSKFR5E submitted 2026-06-01 econ.GN q-fin.EC

Martin Eckhoff Andresen , Manudeep Bhuller , Alfred L{o}vgren This is my paper · ORCID

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The pith

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The reading

The paper tests how beliefs about salaries shape workers' willingness to trade pay for amenities like workplace conditions. Respondents under-predict starting salaries by 18% and expect higher-amenity jobs to pay more than they actually do. Short-term pay information raises beliefs by 4% and cuts dispersion by 15% but leaves the perceived amenity-pay slope unchanged. Full disclosure of pay for the specific jobs being considered shifts choices toward higher-paying options by 4% and brings implied tradeoffs in line with benchmarks from fully informed hypothetical choices. This shows that the form and persistence of pay information matter for correcting belief-driven distortions in job selection.

What carries the argument

The multi-stage incentivized survey experiment combining hypothetical choice experiments with elicited beliefs about starting salaries in real jobs, with random variation in the provision of explicit pay information.

What would settle it

A field experiment that randomly provides or withholds pay information for actual job offers and measures whether the 4% upward shift in accepted pay and the alignment of amenity tradeoffs appear in real acceptance decisions.

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Core claim

Workers under-predict starting salaries by 18% and expect higher-amenity jobs to pay more, substantially over-predicting the amenity-pay gradient. A short-term pay information intervention raises mean beliefs about pay in similar jobs by 4% and reduces belief dispersion by 15%, but does not alter the perceived amenity-pay slope or the implied tradeoffs in stated choices. Full disclosure of pay for jobs under consideration raises the pay of chosen jobs by about 4% and recovers willingness-to-pay estimates closely aligned with full-information hypothetical-choice benchmarks. Short-term disclosure thus moves beliefs but not perceived tradeoffs, while persistent disclosure erases biases in pay b

Load-bearing premise

The hypothetical choice experiments in the survey accurately reflect real-world job preferences and tradeoffs, without significant hypothetical bias.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Correcting pay beliefs through full disclosure increases the salary level of jobs workers select.
Short-term information updates shift average beliefs and reduce uncertainty but leave the slope of the amenity-pay gradient unchanged.
Persistent disclosure of pay for specific options nearly eliminates the gap between stated tradeoffs and those observed under full information.
Biased expectations about the amenity-pay relationship can lead to choices that forgo higher pay without corresponding amenity gains.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Job platforms that display salary ranges for listed positions could reduce the distortion in amenity valuations documented here.
Mandates for pay transparency in job postings might produce larger effects on choices than one-time information interventions.
Similar belief biases about compensation gradients could appear in other choice settings such as housing or education, where full price disclosure might realign tradeoffs.
Testing whether the 4% pay shift persists when workers face real budget constraints or repeated decisions would clarify external validity.

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The main takeaway is that workers underpredict starting salaries by 18 percent and overstate how much higher-amenity jobs pay, and that giving full pay information for the exact jobs in the choice task corrects the implied willingness-to-pay numbers while a one-time information nudge does not. The design that produces these numbers is straightforward: elicit beliefs about real jobs, run hypothetical choice experiments, and randomly vary whether pay is shown or not. That separation between temporary and full disclosure is the clearest new piece.

The paper does a good job keeping the experiment incentivized and multi-stage, which reduces some obvious demand effects. The quantitative patterns line up internally: short disclosure moves average beliefs and cuts dispersion but leaves the amenity-pay slope untouched, while full disclosure shifts both beliefs and the choices themselves by about 4 percent in pay. Those contrasts are useful for thinking about pay transparency rules.

The soft spot is the usual one for this style of work. All the outcome measures come from stated choices over hypothetical profiles. Nothing in the design directly tests whether the 4 percent shift or the recovered willingness-to-pay numbers would appear in actual applications or job offers where search costs, outside options, and real stakes are present. The abstract does not report any validation against administrative data or field behavior, so the policy implications rest on the assumption that the survey maps closely enough.

This is the kind of paper that belongs in a labor or behavioral economics reading group. Readers working on information frictions or pay transparency will want to see the exact belief-elicitation protocol and robustness checks. It is worth sending to referees because the design is replicable and the question is live, even if the external-validity step will need more evidence later.

Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports results from a multi-stage incentivized survey experiment that elicits beliefs about starting salaries in real jobs and presents hypothetical job profiles with randomized pay disclosure. It finds that respondents under-predict salaries by 18% and over-predict the amenity-pay gradient; a short-term information intervention raises mean pay beliefs by 4% and reduces dispersion by 15% but leaves perceived tradeoffs unchanged; full pay disclosure in the choice stage raises chosen pay by ~4% and produces WTP estimates aligned with full-information hypothetical benchmarks.

Significance. If the mapping from stated choices to real labor-market behavior holds, the results provide direct evidence that information about pay can correct biased beliefs and restore amenity-pay tradeoffs, with implications for pay-transparency policies. The design's combination of belief elicitation, randomization of disclosure, and within-subject choice variation is a methodological strength that cleanly separates belief updating from choice effects.

major comments (1)

[Abstract / experimental design] Abstract and experimental-design section: the central claim that full disclosure 'recovers willingness-to-pay estimates closely aligned with full-information hypothetical-choice benchmarks' and raises chosen pay by 4% is load-bearing for the paper's interpretation, yet the design contains no validation (e.g., comparison to actual job offers, revealed-preference data, or external benchmarks) that the hypothetical choices are free of hypothetical bias. Without such evidence the 4% effect and alignment result cannot be taken to speak to real amenity-pay tradeoffs.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] The abstract states that the short-term intervention 'does not alter the perceived amenity-pay slope,' but the manuscript should report the precise statistical test and standard error for this null result to allow readers to assess power.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comment on the interpretation of hypothetical choices.

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Referee: [Abstract / experimental design] Abstract and experimental-design section: the central claim that full disclosure 'recovers willingness-to-pay estimates closely aligned with full-information hypothetical-choice benchmarks' and raises chosen pay by 4% is load-bearing for the paper's interpretation, yet the design contains no validation (e.g., comparison to actual job offers, revealed-preference data, or external benchmarks) that the hypothetical choices are free of hypothetical bias. Without such evidence the 4% effect and alignment result cannot be taken to speak to real amenity-pay tradeoffs.

Authors: We agree that the experiment relies on stated choices and contains no external validation against revealed-preference data, actual job offers, or other real-world benchmarks. The manuscript's claims are scoped to the stated-preference setting: the abstract explicitly compares results to 'full-information hypothetical-choice benchmarks,' and the design uses randomization of disclosure to identify how information affects choices within this controlled environment. The 4% shift in chosen pay and the alignment result therefore speak directly to the correction of biased beliefs in hypothetical tradeoffs. While we acknowledge that hypothetical bias remains a concern for extrapolating to real labor-market behavior, the paper does not claim to provide direct evidence on real amenity-pay tradeoffs; implications for policy are presented as suggestive only. We do not view the absence of external validation as undermining the internal validity of the information-provision effects documented. revision: no

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No circularity: empirical survey experiment with direct experimental outcomes

full rationale

The paper reports results from a multi-stage incentivized survey experiment that elicits beliefs and stated choices under varying information conditions. No mathematical derivations, model equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the reported analysis. All key quantities (chosen pay, WTP estimates, belief updates) are measured directly from participant responses within the experimental design, with no reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. The work is therefore self-contained as standard empirical economics.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters or invented entities; relies on standard assumptions in experimental economics about survey validity.

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domain assumption Survey responses reflect true preferences and beliefs
The experiment relies on incentivized survey to elicit beliefs and choices.

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This paper studies how workers' beliefs about pay shape the tradeoffs between pay and workplace amenities. We design a multi-stage incentivized survey experiment that combines hypothetical choice experiments with elicited beliefs about starting salaries in real jobs and randomly varies the provision of explicit pay information. Although stated preferences imply sizable willingness to pay for workplace amenities, baseline beliefs about salaries in real jobs are systematically biased along two margins: respondents under-predict starting salaries by 18% and expect higher-amenity jobs to pay more, substantially over-predicting the amenity-pay gradient. A short-term pay information intervention raises mean beliefs about pay in similar jobs by 4% and reduces belief dispersion by 15%, but does not alter the perceived amenity-pay slope or the implied tradeoffs in stated choices. Meanwhile, full disclosure of pay for jobs under consideration raises the pay of chosen jobs by about 4% and recovers willingness-to-pay estimates closely aligned with full-information hypothetical-choice benchmarks. Short-term disclosure thus moves beliefs but not perceived tradeoffs, while persistent disclosure erases biases in pay beliefs and nearly restores the full-information tradeoffs.

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