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riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab experiments … colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and although there …
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. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence …
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. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence …
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-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …
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This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …
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This paper reports the results of a lab experiment designed to study the role of observability for peer effects in the … setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high …
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Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 …
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Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 …
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Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...
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