Peers and Motivation at Work Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi
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 percent. This effect is driven by the responses of women. Neither production nor compensation externalities cause the eff...
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University of Wisconsin Press
2022
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