paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …

advantage emerges in various measures of performance (points, goals, shots, etc.), this advantage is almost halved when matches …, England, Italy and Portugal) for the last 10 championships and compare several outcomes (determined by players' performance …

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over … the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …

the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and … international tournaments, there are no relevant effects of enjoying different days of rest on team performance. However, we find … goals scored and conceded) to the respective days of rests that teams have had after their previous match, controlling for …

which teams enjoy different levels of support from the crowd - the home team has many more supporters, mainly because of … on referee's decisions and through the encouragement of players' performance. …

-dominated circumstances affect women's racing performance. We control for individual fixed-effects plus a host of other factors affecting … performance (such as starting lane, fitness and weather conditions). Our estimates reveal that women's race-time is slower in …

, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …