-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …

-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …

How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …

of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …