This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public …

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 …

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …

tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk … preferences, self-assessments, gender, and other socio-economic characteristics such as the Big Five personality traits. Results …

. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers … of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception … individual beliefs and attitudes in the late 1980s, longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel is used to test the …