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CEP discussion paper
Meaning at work

We evaluate a firm's unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards. We randomize the roll-out of the firm's "D...Read more...

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni and Luigi Zingales

14 May 2025

CentrePiece article
Scars of war

Deaths of soldiers in wartime naturally have a powerful impact on the communities from which they come. Research by Edward Pinchbeck, Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto reveals how losses in the first world war have reverbe...Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

20 October 2023

CEP discussion paper
Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation

What drives soldiers to risk their life in combat? We show that the legacy of war creates lasting conditions that encourage younger generations to take greater risks when fighting for their country. Using individual-leve...Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

1 August 2023

CEP discussion paper
The motivational cost of inequality: pay gaps reduce the willingness to pursue rewards

Factors beyond a person?s control, such as demographic characteristics at birth, often influence the availability of rewards an individual can expect for their efforts. We know surprisingly little how such pay-gaps due t...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Filip Gesiarz and Tali Sharot

27 November 2019

CEP discussion paper
Team adaptation

We model an organization as a team choosing between a status quo project and a potentially superior alternative. We show that the members? concern for each other?s motivation leads to a lack of communication, resulting i...Read more...

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Moller

6 April 2016

CEP discussion paper
Decision-making and implementation in teams

We use a mechanism?design approach to study a team whose members choose a joint project and exert individual efforts to execute it. Members have private information about the qualities of alternative projects. Informatio...Read more...

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Moller

7 May 2013

CEP discussion paper
Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation, and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributio...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

Revised January 2012

CEP discussion paper
Disengagement 14-16: Context and Evidence

This paper presents an overview of our current state of knowledge regarding poor motivation of 14-16 year old school pupils in the UK. A number of experts in the field from a variety of disciplines presented papers on th...Read more...

Hilary Steedman and Sheila Stoney

October 2004

CEP discussion paper
Can a Work Organization Have An Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitude and Economic Outcomes

In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ?workplace attitudes? affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employe...Read more...

Ann Bartel, Richard B. Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Morris Kleiner

May 2004

CEP discussion paper
Gender, Motivation, Experience and Wages

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-97 this paper investigates the structure of the female wage equation and the gender wage differential. The discriminatory portion of the gender wage differential i...Read more...

Joanna Swaffield

May 2000

CEP discussion paper
Teachers Before the 'Threshold'

During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a 'before-and-after' panel study of teachers and s...Read more...

David Marsden

April 2000