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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …

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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers : An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks

Freeman, Richard B.; Pan, Xiaofei; Yang, Xiaolan; Ye, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …

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Peer Information and Risk-taking under Competitive and Non-competitive Pay Schemes

Brookins, Philip - 2016

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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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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Quantifying Lottery Choice Complexity

Enke, Benjamin; Shubatt, Cassidy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop interpretable, quantitative indices of the objective and subjective complexity of lottery choice problems that can be computed for any standard dataset. These indices capture the predicted error rate in identifying the lottery with the highest expected value, where the predictions are...

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A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Rules

Kaplow, Louis - 1992

Rules often are complex in order to distinguish different types of behavior that may have different consequences. Greater complexity thus allows better control of behavior. But individuals may need to incur costs ex ante to determine how more complex rules apply to their contemplated conduct....

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Decision-Making in Complex Households

Rangel, Marcos - 2019

Extremely rich data on farm households in Burkina Faso are used to test whether resource are allocated Pareto efficiently. The complexity of household structures, including multi-generation and polygynous households, is taken into account to developing tests from theoretical models of behavior....

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Complex Disclosure

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2018

Disclosure policies have the potential to help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To explore the incentives for using complexity in...

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Comparative Advantage, Complexity and Volatility

Krishna, Pravin - 2009

Less developed countries tend to experience higher output volatility, a fact that is, in part, explained by their specialization in more volatile sectors. This paper proposes theoretical explanations for this pattern of specialization -- with the complexity of the goods playing a central role....

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Complexity and Time

Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Oprea, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide experimental evidence that core intertemporal choice anomalies -- including extreme short-run impatience, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity and transitivity violations -- are driven by complexity rather than time or risk preferences. First, all anomalies also arise...

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