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Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

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Gneezy, Uri, List, John A·2006·Econometrica
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00707.x
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Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led scholars to question the underpinnings of neoclassical economics. We use insights gained from one of the most influential lines of behavioral research—gift exchange—in an attempt to maximize worker effort in two quite distinct tasks: data entry for a university library and door-to-door fundraising for a research center. In support of the received literature, our field evidence suggests that worker effort in the first few hours on the job is considerably higher in the “gift” treatment than in the “nongift” treatment. After the initial few hours, however, no difference in outcomes is observed, and overall the gift treatment yielded inferior aggregate outcomes for the employer: with the same budget we would have logged more data for our library and raised more money for our research center by using the market-clearing wage rather than by trying to induce greater effort with a gift of higher wages.

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Authors
Gneezy, U., & List, J. A.
Venue
Econometrica
Publisher
The Econometric Society
Published
2006-09
Volume
74
Issue
5
Pages
1365-1384
ISSN
  • 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-0262
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00707.x
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699
References
38
FWCI
58.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
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