Guryan Jonathan, Kroft Kory, Notowidigdo Matthew J
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago IL 60637 USA and NBER.
Am Econ J Appl Econ. 2009 Oct 1;1(4):34-68. doi: 10.1257/app.1.4.34.
This paper uses random assignment in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that playing partners' ability affects performance, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the workplace from laboratory experiments, grocery scanners, and soft-fruit pickers. In our preferred specification we can rule out peer effects larger than 0.043 strokes for a one stroke increase in playing partners' ability. Our results complement existing studies on workplace peer effects and are useful in explaining how social effects vary across labor markets, across individuals, and with the form of incentives faced.
本文利用职业高尔夫锦标赛中的随机分组来检验工作场所中的同伴效应。我们没有发现证据表明比赛搭档的能力会影响成绩，这与最近来自实验室实验、杂货店收银员和软水果采摘工的关于工作场所同伴效应的证据相反。在我们的首选设定中，对于比赛搭档能力每提高一杆，我们可以排除大于0.043杆的同伴效应。我们的结果补充了关于工作场所同伴效应的现有研究，有助于解释社会效应如何因劳动力市场、个体以及所面临的激励形式的不同而有所差异。
