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A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This … article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the … applications of our theoretical work: envy can explain why a lower-level worker is awarded stock options, why incentive pay is …
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paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
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-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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that both forces are at play. We conduct a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential …
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving … laboratory, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are manipulated and …
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We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
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conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …
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