Publication: Leveraging social comparisons: the role of peer assignment policies
Leveraging social comparisons: the role of peer assignment policies
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Senn, J., Schmitz, J., & Zehnder, C. (2023). Leveraging social comparisons: the role of peer assignment policies (No. 427; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
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Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy designed to maximize motivational spillovers. These effects are significantly larger than those obtained through random assignment and their magnitude is comparable to the impact of monetary incentives that increase pay by about 10 percent. A downside of targeted pe
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Senn, J., Schmitz, J., & Zehnder, C. (2023). Leveraging social comparisons: the role of peer assignment policies (No. 427; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
