[VCEE Seminar] REMINDER: VCEE Seminar with Julien Senn - Invitation, December 6

[Mailing list of the VCEE seminar series]

Dear members and friends of the VCEE,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Friday, December 6, 2024, from
10:30 to 12:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in lecture hall 17 (2nd floor) at
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.

We will have one speaker: Julien Senn (University of Zurich)

Webpage:   <https://sites.google.com/site/juliensenn/>
https://sites.google.com/site/juliensenn/

 


Here is more information about the talk:

Title: 

Leveraging Social Comparisons: The Role of Peer Assignment Policies
(coauthored with Jan Schmitz and Christian Zehnder)

Abstract:

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 an increase in pay of about 10
percent. A downside of targeted peer assignment is that, unlike endogenous
peer selection, it leads to a large increase in stress. The key advantage of
letting workers choose whom to compare to is that it allows those workers
who want to be motivated to compare to a motivating peer while also
permitting those for whom social comparisons have little benefits or are too
stressful to avoid them. Finally, we show that social comparisons yield
stronger motivational effects than comparable non-social goals.


If you are interested in meeting after the seminar (meeting slots of 30')
you can register via this link:

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/VSDXZv9FzLYBllRW

 

Best regards,

Sylvia

 

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