"We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...

CEE DP 66 Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England & Wales: What Do We Know? Alan Manning Jörn-Steffen Pischke June 2006 Published by Centre for the Economics of Education London School of Economics Houghton...