We test an information theory of prosocial behavior whereby ego utility and self-signaling crowd out the effect of … altruistic motives). By combining a field experiment and a structural model, these findings contribute to a growing literature on …

We test a self-signaling theory using two large-scale, randomized controlled field experiments. Smartphone users are …-signaling theory, whereby the discount crowds out the consumer's “warm-glow” feeling from the charitable donation. Alternative …

-friendly from buyer-friendlier matching mechanisms. We show that the decision to implement matchmaking mechanisms, and whether these …

We analyze how globalization affects the allocation of talent across competing teams in large matching markets …. Focusing on amplified superstar effects, we show that a convex transformation of payoffs promotes positive assortative matching …

This paper analyzes the problem of matching two heterogeneous populations, e.g., men and women. If the payoff from a … match exhibits complementarities, it is well known that absent any friction positive assortative matching is optimal (PAM …). Coarse matching refers to a situation in which the populations into a finite number of classes, then randomly matched within …

strong support for these solutions in a laboratory experiment, and show how they can be simply implemented for popular school …

% higher first stage effort than random matching. In line with the theory the latter result is more pronounced when the task … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …