A worker’s utility may increase in his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer’s income … various assumptions about the object and generality of envy. Envy amplifies the effect of incentives on effort and, therefore …, increases optimal incentive pay. Moreover, envy can make profitsharing optimal, even when the worker’s effort is fully …

behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …

used in the literature. Our results suggest that adding experimental periods in an experiment can substantially increase …

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …