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 …

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 …

Despite the renewed interest in the use of experimental designs in the fields of leadership
and management over the past few decades, these designs are still relatively underutilized …

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 …

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 …

Purpose: Compensation is very important for the performance of the employees. Therefore
they are very important for the organization too. The purpose of this research is to measure …

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 conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effect of extrinsic rewards, both financial and
non-financial, on the performance of agents recruited by a public health organization to …

Modern large-scale language models approach the quality of human-level writing. This
promises the advent of AI writing companions performing AI-led writing under human …

We present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher performance pay program
implemented across a large representative sample of government-run rural primary schools …