effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …

evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … plant began paying the two downstream workers for their combined output (team pay). This led to a modest output reduction in …. Workers ́behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …

We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning … prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe … by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the bribe. We show that these conditions depend on the ratios of …

lead to suboptimal institutional choice. -- voting ; punishment ; voluntary contributions ; heterogeneity ; experiment …