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In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for the working population in the United States, using the Gallup/Healthways US Daily Poll 2008-2012. We first find that weekend effects exist for all emotions, and that these...
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We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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Workplace misbehaviors are often governed by explicit monitoring and strict punishment. Such enforcement activities can serve to lessen worker productivity and harm worker morale. We take a different approach to curbing worker misbehavior--bonuses. Examining more than 6500 donor phone calls...
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We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …
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diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …
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We fully solve an assignment problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes, that is, when production is submodular. We show that sorting is neither positive nor negative and is characterized sufficiently by two regions. In the first...
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A brief discussion of recent methods using the Hat Matrix for identifying leverage points, and clustering techniques for finding groups of data points is presented. The problem of identifying leverage groups is addressed, and a heuristic algorithm for identifying both leverage points and...
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The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data. The theory is a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market in which production and the accumulation of human capital of an individual are allowed to depend on the human...
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created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous … separation of a founding team member due to premature death has a persistently large, negative, and statistically significant …
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This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …
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