In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic
effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and …

Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across
businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields …

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly
assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a …

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the relationship between
positive affect and productivity. We link highly detailed administrative data on the behaviors …

This study provides new insights into the link among knowledge, industrial robotics and
labor productivity by testing 12 hypotheses on samples of 1,515 and 1,380 Spanish …

Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments. They
provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool, and allow researchers to …

I combine newly digitized personnel and public finance data from the British colonial
administration for the period 1854–1966 to study how patronage affects the promotion and …

Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about
family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees' social interactions with their …

We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with
colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents' effort choices in …