Team players: How social skills improve team performance

B Weidmann, DJ Deming - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper, we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to team production. We …

Farm labor productivity and the impact of mechanization

SF Hamilton, TJ Richards, AP Shafran… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a chronic shortage of agricultural labor in the US. Although growers increasingly
turn to guest‐worker programs to meet their labor needs, few regard immigrant workers as a …

The forgotten teammate: Considering the labor perspective in human-autonomy teams

SR Begerowski, KN Hedrick, F Waldherr… - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Advancements in technology, such as autonomous agents, have sparked a substantial
increase in human-autonomy teaming (HAT) research. Despite this increase in research …

The effect of social networks on students' academic and non-cognitive behavioural outcomes: evidence from conditional random assignment of friends in school

V Lavy, E Sand - The Economic Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the impacts of separating students in Israel from pre-existing social
relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school on their academic …

Team players: How social skills improve group performance

B Weidmann, DJ Deming - 2020 - nber.org
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance. We …

What is in Local Dialects? A Field Experiment on Social Distance and Human Capital Development in Job Training

SX Li, S Wang, S Yang - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a field experiment at a large garment factory in China to investigate
whether the reduced social distance between new sewing workers and their trainers affects …

Information, mobile communication, and referral effects

PJ Barwick, Y Liu, E Patacchini, Q Wu - 2019 - nber.org
Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of
information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult …

Should I get a master's degree?: Evaluating peer effects on education investment decisions in the workplace

AJ Chesney - Economics of Education Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines workplace peer effects on advanced education attainment. Using
administrative data from the US Department of Defense (DoD) and conditional exogeneous …

Peers and motivation at work: evidence from a firm experiment in Malawi

L Brune, E Chyn, J Kerwin - Journal of Human Resources, 2022 - jhr.uwpress.org
We study workplace peer effects by randomly varying work assignments at a tea estate in
Malawi. We find that increasing mean peer ability by 10 percent raises productivity by 0.3 …

Self-selection of peers and performance

L Kiessling, J Radbruch, S Schaube - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies how the presence of peers and different peer assignment rules—self-
selection versus random assignment—affect individual performance. Using a framed field …