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Gift giving and worker productivity: Evidence from a firm-level experiment
Authors:Charles Bellemare  Bruce Shearer  
Institution:aDépartement d'économique, Université Laval, Canada;bCIRPÉE, Canada;cIZA, Germany
Abstract:We present results from a field experiment, designed to measure worker response to a monetary gift from their employer. The experiment took place inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting productivity. We compare planter productivity—the number of trees planted per day—on the day the gift was handed out with productivity on previous and subsequent days of planting on the same block, and thus under similar planting conditions. We find direct evidence that the gift had a significant and positive effect on daily planter productivity, controlling for planter-fixed effects, weather conditions and other random daily shocks.
Keywords:Reciprocity  Gift exchange  Incentive contracts  Field experiments
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