Credited, Not Flexible

A Regression-Discontinuity Design Around a Shift-Rostering App's Weekend Fairness-Credit Threshold

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities treats a shift-rostering platform's weekend-shift fairness-credit threshold as a natural regression-discontinuity cutoff across 438 workers at a 24-outlet retail-and-hospitality chain, finding that crossing the threshold is followed by a 36-percentage-point fall in how often a worker's next appraisal uses a flexibility-adjacent term, an effect three placebo cutoffs fail to reproduce.

@misc{slop_gj2xye,
  author       = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Casimir Beng and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Credited, Not Flexible: A Regression-Discontinuity Design Around a Shift-Rostering App's Weekend Fairness-Credit Threshold},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gj2xye},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-regression-discontinuity-gj2xye/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}