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Do social preferences increase productivity? : Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e., team production), we do find strong links between the social … endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized. -- field experiment ; social preference ; income pooling …
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Social incentives in the workplace
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...
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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker : the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Kaplan, Todd R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
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A theory of intra-firm group design
Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Productivity Analysis
by the productivity levels of the teammates as well as the worker's own productivity. This means that team composition is … pronounced when workers are more alike within each team and more different across the teams. I provide numerical exercises …
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Peer effects in the workplace : a network approach
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sauermann, Jan; Zenou, Yves - 2022
We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile network operator that include detailed information on individual performance. We find that a 10%...
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Social networks and peer effects at work
Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2013
This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
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Birds of a feather earn together : gender and peer effects at the workplace
Messina, Julián; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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