| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22316 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22316 |
| A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly | |
| Greer K. Gosnell; John A. List; Robert Metcalfe | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-06-20 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Understanding motivations in the workplace remains of utmost import as economies around the world rely on increases in labor productivity to foster sustainable economic growth. This study makes use of a unique opportunity to “look under the hood” of an organization that critically relies on worker effort and performance. By partnering with Virgin Atlantic Airways on a field experiment that includes over 40,000 unique flights covering an eight-month period, we explore how information and incentives affect captains’ performance. Making use of more than 110,000 captain-level observations, we find that our set of treatments—which include performance information, personal targets, and prosocial incentives—induces captains to improve efficiency in all three key flight areas: pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight. We estimate that our treatments saved between 266,000-704,000 kg of fuel for the airline over the eight-month experimental period. These savings led to between 838,000-2.22 million kg of CO2 abated at a marginal abatement cost of negative $250 per ton of CO2 (i.e. a $250 savings per ton abated) over the eight-month experimental period. Methodologically, our approach highlights the potential usefulness of moving beyond an experimental design that focuses on short-run substitution effects, and it also suggests a new way to combat firm-level externalities: target workers rather than the firm as a whole. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22316 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580018 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Greer K. Gosnell,John A. List,Robert Metcalfe. A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly. 2016. |
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| w22316.pdf（1098KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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