This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …

10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total output by more than would … adding one worker to a nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments--which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …

Naively present-biased agents are known to be severe procrastinators. In team settings, procrastination can represent a … form of free-riding that, in excess, can jeopardize a team's ability to meet a deadline. Here we show how naivete and … present bias, despite their reputations, can be desirable traits in a teammate, enabling a team to optimize its performance …

How does team-specific capital affect productivity? We examine the teams that primary care physicians (PCPs) assemble … when referring patients to specialists. Our theoretical model finds that team-specific capital is greater when PCPs …

stronger among males than females. Further, we examine the causal impact of homophily on team performance. Homophily in … ethnicity increases team performance by lifting teams in bottom quantiles to median performance quantiles, but it does not …