Productivity under Group Incentives: An Experimental Study

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 314-341

  Nalbantian, Haig R ^a   Schotter, Andrew ^b  

^a William M Mercer Inc   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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