coordination costs. Our study investigates this trade-off in a complex team task with high effort costs in a natural setting. We … balance negatively affects team performance. However, we also provide evidence that the most successful teams are able to …

setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task … field, we find no evidence that low-productivity workers perform better when they are observed by high-productivity co …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high-productivity …