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Gompers, Paul - 2012

This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...

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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science

Häussler, Carolin - 2016

perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …

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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Gneezy, Uri - 2014

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2017

to enforce cooperation within these different regimes. This paper develops a measure of the tightness of historical … readily support in-group members in need. This cooperation regime is enforced by tribalistic moral values, emotions of … social cooperation systems …

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How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

Cullen, Zoë - 2018

We study how employees learn about the salaries of their peers and managers and how their beliefs about those salaries affect their own behavior. We conducted a field experiment with a sample of 2,060 employees from a multi-billion dollar corporation. We combine rich data from surveys and...

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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Self-, Peer-, and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking

Malamud, Ofer; Mitrut, Andreea; Pop-Eleches, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine student, teacher, and peer perceptions of effort, ability, performance, and self-confidence in Romania's highly tracked schools. We find that: (1) students just above a cutoff--tracked into high-achieving classes--have less favorable self-perceptions than those just below...

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Motivating Effort In Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence

Blasco, Andrea - 2016

We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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