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Ode to the Sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Gneezy, Uri - 2014

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2018

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …

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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science

Häussler, Carolin - 2016

perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data – the disclosures of author contributions on …

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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A Community College Instructor Like Me : Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011

Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...

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Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

Lavy, Victor - 2007

The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender...

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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production : Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

Horton, John J. - 2016

Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...

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Peer Information and Risk-Taking Under Competitive and Non-Competitive Pay Schemes

Brookins, Philip; Brown, Jennifer; Ryvkin, Dmitry - 2021

Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...

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How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

Cullen, Zoe - 2018

The vast majority of the pay inequality in an organization comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a field experiment with a sample...

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Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence

Blasco, Andrea - 2016

We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...

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