We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....

This paper has two purposes. First, it documents the historical context of MINCOME, a Canadian guaranteed annual income field experiment (1974 to 1979). Second, it uses routinely collected health administration data and a quasi-experimental design to document an 8.5 percent reduction in the...

Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are yielding the desired payoffs. This paper...

This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments, offering either: 1) "ordinary" accounts, or 2) both ordinary...

This study seeks to understand what motivates people to voluntarily make the switch from voting at a polling place to voting by mail. Specifically, we seek to understand whether valence appeals can convince voters to change their voting behavior. Working with the San Joaquin County (CA)...

We further the theoretical understanding of group faultlines (hypothetical lines that split a group into subgroups based on two or more demographic attributes; Lau & Murnighan, 1998) in demographically diverse organizations by also conceptualizing the distance of difference between the two...