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View article: Is this Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control
Is this Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control Open
View article: People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics
People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics Open
View article: Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy Open
View article: Life after Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
Life after Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy Open
View article: Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups Open
View article: Replication Data for: 'Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record'
Replication Data for: 'Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record' Open
The programs replicate tables and figures from "Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record", by Cullen, Dobbie, and Hoffman. Please see the README file for additional details.
View article: Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record Open
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks.Employers may thus still want to ask about a job appl…
View article: Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy Open
View article: Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record Open
View article: Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Startups
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Startups Open
View article: Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Startups
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Startups Open
View article: Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record Open
View article: Worker overconfidence: Field evidence and implications for employee turnover and firm profits
Worker overconfidence: Field evidence and implications for employee turnover and firm profits Open
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over 2 years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently overpredict their productivity. If workers are overconfident abou…
View article: What Do Employee Referral Programs Do
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do Open
Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. Larger bonuses increase referrals and decrease referral quality, though the increase in referrals is modest. Still, ERPs are highly profitable, partly, because r…
View article: People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis
People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis Open
How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee outcomes?Are managers rewarded for having such skills?Using personnel data from a large, high-tech firm, we show that s…
View article: Replication Data for: 'Discretion in Hiring'
Replication Data for: 'Discretion in Hiring' Open
The programs replicate tables and figures from "Discretion in Hiring", by Hoffman, Kahn, and Li. Please see the Readme file for additional details.
View article: Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training
Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training Open
Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere."Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency.Using plausibly exogenous c…
View article: Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training Open
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently overpredict their productivity.If workers are overconfident abo…
View article: Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training Open
View article: People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis
People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis Open
View article: Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training Open
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their productivity. If workers are overconfident a…
View article: Master.do
Master.do Open
View article: The value of hiring through employee referrals in developed countries
The value of hiring through employee referrals in developed countries Open
Companies frequently hire new employees based on referrals from existing employees, who often recommend friends or family members. There are numerous possible benefits from this, such as lower turnover, possibly higher productivity, lower …
View article: step4_paper_regs_19_clean.do
step4_paper_regs_19_clean.do Open
View article: One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout
One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout Open
A common feature of many models of voter turnout is that increasing the perceived closeness of the election should increase voter turnout.However, cleanly testing this prediction is difficult and little is known about voter beliefs regardi…
View article: Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training
Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training Open
Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous…
View article: One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout
One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout Open
A common feature of many models of voter turnout is that increasing the perceived closeness of the election should increase voter turnout. However, cleanly testing this prediction is difficult and little is known about voter beliefs regard…
View article: Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training
Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training Open
View article: step3_create_regfile_29_clean.do
step3_create_regfile_29_clean.do Open
View article: Compulsory voting, turnout, and government spending: Evidence from Austria
Compulsory voting, turnout, and government spending: Evidence from Austria Open