Social ties at work and effort choice: experimental evidence from Tanzania

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11640/24:00604597
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103354" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103354</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103354" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103354</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Social ties at work and effort choice: experimental evidence from Tanzania
Original language description
Many firms hire workers via social networks. Whether workers who are socially connected to their employers exert more effort on the job is an unsettled debate. We address this question through a novel experiment with small-business owners in Tanzania. Participants are paired with a worker who conducts a real-effort task, and receive a payoff that depends on the worker’s effort. Some business owners are randomly paired with workers they know, while others are paired with strangers. We find that being connected to one’s employer does not affect workers’ effort on average, but increases the effort of workers without children. Our results are consistent with workers having an altruistic drive in exerting effort when they work for someone they know, which fades away when their valuation of private income becomes stronger.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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