Effects of dialogue meetings on sickness absence—Evidence from a large field experiment
通过一项大规模随机现场实验，评估挪威自2007年实施的对话会议政策对病假缺勤的影响，发现召集会议和发送通知信均无显著效果，且未发现异质性处理效应。
Sickness absence entails large individual and societal costs. Dialogue Meetings (DMs) where the absentee, the employer, and the physician discuss arrangements for full or partial work resumption have been in place in Norway since 2007. In collaboration with the Labour and Welfare Administration, we conducted a large-scale, pre-registered, randomized field experiment to evaluate aspects of the Norwegian DMs policy. We do not find statistically significant effects of summoning to a meeting and we can reject even small threat (notification) effects of sending out letters. We also conduct an extensive search for heterogeneous treatment effects but find no evidence of these.