Labor is supplied because most of us must work to live. Indeed, it is called “work” in part
because without compensation, the overwhelming majority of workers would not otherwise …

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which
agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These …

We study employee productivity (output per hour worked) before and during the working
from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from …

Does removing constraints on the time and place of work benefit the utility of workers and
firms? We design a randomized experiment of a sample of workers in a large Italian …

Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created societal
and political pressure for pension funds to address sustainable investing. We run two field …

Partnering with the US Census Bureau, we implement a new survey of “structured”
management practices in two waves of 35,000 manufacturing plants in 2010 and 2015. We …

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics
but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional …

Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question, we analyze the
wages of public school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts …

We study the effect of outdoor air pollution on the productivity of indoor workers at a pear-
packing factory. Increases in fine particulate matter (PM2. 5), a pollutant that readily …

A rising share of employees now regularly engage in working from home (WFH), but there
are concerns this can lead to “shirking from home.” We report the results of a WFH …