Publications

• Employee Innovation During Office Work, Work from Home and Hybrid Work
  Nature Scientific Reports, 2024 (with Friederike Mengel & Christoph Siemroth)
• Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals
  Journal of Political Economy - Microeconomics, 2023 (with Friederike Mengel & Christoph Siemroth)
• Job Design
  In Encyclopedia of Labour Studies, ed. Tor Eriksson, Edgar Elger Press, 2023
• How is New Technology Changing Job Design?
  IZA World of Labor, August 2022 (first version March 2017) (with Sergei Bazylik)
• Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription
  In The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, ed. William Taylor, University of Kansas Press, forthcoming (with Tim Perri)
• 5 Experts Respond to 5 Questions about 5 Trends in Compensation & Benefits over the Next 5 Years
  Compensation & Benefits Review, August 2020 (with Phillip Bryant, Duncan Brown, Charles Cotton, Brad Hill & Michael Sturman)
       • Featured in Psychology Today
• A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
  Review of Economics & Statistics, October 2017 (with Susanne Neckermann & Christoph Siemroth)
       • Online appendix: programs & output (zip file)
• Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives
  Compensation & Benefits Review, April 2017
• An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration
  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, July 2016 (with Kathryn Ierulli & Valerie Smeets)
       • Online appendix
       • Featured in Economics 2.0, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
• Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
  Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, 2013
• Designing Incentive Plans: New Insights from Academic Research
  World at Work Journal, December 2012
• Why are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
  Research in Labor Economics, 2010 (with Cindy Zoghi & Alec Levenson)
• The Personnel Economics Approach to Public Workforce Research
  Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, November 2009
• Performance Measure Properties and Incentive System Design
  Industrial Relations, April 2009 (with Kenneth Merchant, Wim Van der Stede, & Mark Vargus)
       • Featured in Academy of Management Perspectives Research Briefings, August 2009
• Globalization, Superstars, and Reputation: Theory & Evidence from the Wine Industry
  Journal of Wine Economics, Spring 2009 (with Mikel Tapia & Frederic Warzynski)
• Managing in a Downturn: Getting Staff on Your Side
  Financial Times, February 2009
• Discussion of “Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Promotion-Based Incentives”
  Journal of Accounting Research, May 2008
• Returns to Skills & Personnel Management: U.S. Department of Defense Scientists & Engineers
  Economic Inquiry, April 2006
• The Benefits of Evaluating Performance Subjectively
  Performance Improvement Journal, 2005 (with Kenneth Merchant, Wim Van der Stede, & Mark Vargus)
• Determinants and Effects of Subjectivity in Incentives
  The Accounting Review, April 2004 (with Kenneth Merchant, Wim Van der Stede, & Mark Vargus)
       • Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award, American Accounting Association, 2007
• Do Formal Salary Systems Really Matter?
  Industrial & Labor Relations Review, October 2004 (with Wallace Hendricks)
• The Economic Approach to Personnel Research
  In The Expansion of Economics,ed. Shoshana Grossbard-Schechtman, M.E. Sharpe Inc., December 2001 (with Alec Levenson)
• Pay Competitiveness & Quality of Department of Defense Scientists & Engineers
  RAND Report, MR-1312, March 2001. May be ordered from RAND
• Incentive Compensation in a Corporate Hierarchy
  Journal of Accounting & Economics (joint issue with Journal of Labor Economics), March/May 1995
       • Online appendix: public use version of data + codebook (zip file)
• The Internal Economics of the Firm: Evidence from Personnel Data
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1994 (with George Baker & Bengt Holmstrom)
       • Online appendix: public use version of data + codebook (zip file)
  Reprinted in:
       • The Economics of Organisation & Bureaucracy, v. III, ed. Peter Jackson (a volume of The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics), Edward Elgar Press, 2013
       • Personnel Economics, ed. Edward Lazear & Robert McNabb (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics), Edward Elgar Press, 2004
• The Wage Policy of a Firm
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1994 (with George Baker & Bengt Holmstrom)
       • Online appendix: public use version of data + codebook (zip file)
• Testing Tournaments? An Appraisal of the Theory and Evidence
  Labor Law Journal, August 1994
• Hierarchies and Compensation: A Case Study
  European Economic Review, 1993 (with George Baker & Bengt Holmstrom)
       • Online appendix: public use version of data + codebook (zip file)

Link to my Working papers