. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … expected team production if (i) men and women have similar expected ability, and (ii) monetary incentives to exert effort are … behavior of male team members, gender diversity has the biggest effects in young teams, and monetary incentives crowd-out the …

We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. In a … harder is credible because the team breaks up after an agent has not kept this promise – which leads to individual (under …, the performance of a team of present-biased agents can actually be better than the performance of a team of time …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … matrix of a team, and illustrate the operational practicability of EVP by means of three examples representing different …

observable. A team incentive scheme, where each agent is paid a bonus for aggregate output above a threshold, is optimal in case … (a). The team's efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a … performance. The two cases reveal that it may be optimal to organize production as a team where only aggregate output is …

evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … plant began paying the two downstream workers for their combined output (team pay). This led to a modest output reduction in …. Workers' behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …

cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce … cooperation regimes. This paper uses an anthropological measure of the tightness of historical kinship systems to study the … structure of cooperation patterns and enforcement devices across historical ethnicities, contemporary countries, ethnicities …