Coviello, Decio; Ichino, Andrea; Persico, Nicola - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 2, pp. 609-23
A single worker allocates her time among different projects which are progressively assigned. When the worker works on too many projects at the same time, the output rate decreases and completion time increases according to a law which we derive. We call this phenomenon "task juggling" and argue...