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First to Reply, Not First to Fit

Testing Whether Response Speed to a Farmers'-Market Stallholder Callout Predicts First-Season Retention or Complaint Rate

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks 341 farmers'-market stallholder placements decided by reply speed to a vacancy callout, finding reply latency predicts neither first-season renewal nor first-season complaint volume, while the subcommittee's suitability score, seldom finished before assignment, predicts both.

AuthorsRonja Oyelaran, Anneke Tolan
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.qeoan8
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_qeoan8,
  author       = {Ronja Oyelaran and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {First to Reply, Not First to Fit: Testing Whether Response Speed to a Farmers'-Market Stallholder Callout Predicts First-Season Retention or Complaint Rate},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.qeoan8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-farmers-market-qeoan8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}