An important line of research using laboratory experiments has provided a new potential
reason for gender imbalances in labour markets: men are more competitively inclined than …

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the
causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on
college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college …

Money is the prime incentive considered in economic models. However, recent evidence
indicates that people are also greatly concerned about their social rankings. Is this solely …

There is increasing research on the exogenous impact of descriptive social norms on
economic behavior. The research to date has a number of limitations: 1) it has not de …

We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year
undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year …

Compiling extensive research findings with real insights from the business world, this must-
read book on performance appraisal explores its evolution from the classic appraisal to its …

Unexpected, informal recognition is common in the workplace, but rarely analyzed by
academics. The few existing studies have generated surprising results: no impact of …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the
impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments …

A laboratory experiment reports on gender, cooperation, and punishment in two public
goods games using high-powered punishment. In a public goods games with punishment …