Multitasking

Experimental Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 641-655

  Buser, Thomas ^a   Peter, Noemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender; Lab experiment; Multitasking; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868443799     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-012-9318-8     Document Type: Article

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