Testing the theory of multitasking : evidence from a natural field experiment in Chinese factories

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Hong, Fuhai, Hossain, Tanjim, List, John A., Tanaka, Migiwa
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: Multitasking; DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory; Natural Field Experiment
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104907; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47866; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.12278

Using a natural field experiment with factory workers where we introduce a quantity-based performance-pay scheme in addition to their base salary, we quantify the impact of one-dimensional monetary incentives on both incentivized (quantity) and non-incentivized (quality) dimensions of output. While...