| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22386 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22386 |
| The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments | |
| John J. Horton; Richard J. Zeckhauser | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-07-11 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers’ expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a series of field experiments. We find clear evidence of peer effects, as have others. Workers raise their own output when exposed to high-output peers. They also punish low-output peers, even when that low output has no effect on them. They may be embracing and enforcing the employer’s expectations. (Exposure to employer-provided work samples influences output much the same as exposure to peer-provided work.) However, even when employer expectations are clearly stated, workers increase output beyond those expectations when exposed to workers producing above expectations. Overall, the evidence is strongly consistent with the notion that peer effects are mediated by workers’ sense of fairness related to relative effort. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22386 |
| 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/580059 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John J. Horton,Richard J. Zeckhauser. The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments. 2016. |
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