success in the tournament. Finally, we find that cheating/fudging on the experiment responds to the level of inequality and …

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 …

test of the theory implements a laboratory experiment, where important features of the theory can be exogenously imposed …. We complement our lab experiment with a field experiment, where we rely on biological models complemented by economic …

We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In … contrast to tournaments, which are often avoided by women, we find that women choose team-based pay at least as frequently as … gains associated with team production. Women also respond differently to alternative rules for team formation in a manner …

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …