We study procrastination in the context of a field experiment involving students who must exert costly effort to …-imposed deadlines, which appear to be associated with students' self-reported psychological characteristics and cost of time. We … structurally estimate students' present-bias and cost of time by fitting the experimental data to a stylized stopping time choice …

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 …

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …

2)Which schools accept the students? … by students accepted to Williams College, one of the nation's most highly selective colleges and universities. We use …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

students in a graduate math class. Students were placed in study groups of three or four students, and then groups were …

randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test … whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students about our … capability to detect plagiarism has little effect on cheating. Notifying students that they have been caught cheating and are on …