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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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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Frakes, Michael - 2016

Despite much theoretical attention to the concept of procrastination and much exploration of this phenomenon in laboratory settings, there remain few empirical investigations into the practice of procrastination in real world contexts, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to...

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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations : Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999

Adams, James D.; Black, Grant C.; Clemmons, Roger; … - 2021

team size by the number of authors on a scientific paper. Using this measure we find that team size increases by 50 percent … over the 19-year period. We supplement team size with measures of domestic and foreign institutional collaborations, which … capture the geographic dispersion of team workers. The time series evidence suggests that the trend towards larger and more …

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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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The Impatient Salesperson and the Delegation of Pricing Authority

Lazear, Edward P. - 2014

Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...

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The Role of Sales Agents in Information Disclosure : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Allcott, Hunt - 2014

With a large nationwide retailer, we run a natural field experiment to measure the effects of energy use information disclosure, customer rebates, and sales agent incentives on demand for energy efficient durable goods. While a combination of large rebates plus sales incentives substantially...

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Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Frakes, Michael - 2018

Using application-level data from the Patent Office from 2001 to 2012, merged with personnel data on patent examiners, we explore the extent to which the key decision of examiners—whether to allow a patent—is shaped by the granting styles of her surrounding peers. Taking a number of...

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2018

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a “why” in the 1960s to a “must” today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a...

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China's Lost Generation : Changes in Beliefs and Their Intergenerational Transmission

Roland, Gérard - 2017

Beliefs about whether effort pays off govern some of the most fundamental choices individuals make. This paper uses China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are transmitted across generations. During the Cultural...

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