Although a great deal of effort in tasks, projects, and jobs is fueled by our interactions and
relationships, psychologists have often overlooked the social forces that shape work …

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

Empirical research in economics has begun to explore the idea that workers care about
nonmonetary aspects of work. An increasing number of economic studies using survey and …

Relative-pay concerns have potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long
experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether coworkers within …

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous
daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece …

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to
study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into …

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 …

Using a high‐stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a
novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions …

When effort is observable to peers, students may try to avoid social penalties by conforming
to prevailing norms. To test this hypothesis, we first consider a natural experiment that …