Episode 11: Florian Englmaier on Incentives and Non-Routine Analytical Tasks

Florian Englmaier is a Professor of Organisational Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

The paper discussed in this episode is: “The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Evidence from a Field Experiment”, by Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, David Schindler, and Simeon Schudy.

Other papers referenced in this episode are:

Autor, D. H., Levy, F., & Murnane, R. J. (2003). The skill content of recent technological change: An empirical exploration. The Quarterly journal of economics, 118(4), 1279-1333.

Bandiera, O., Barankay, I., & Rasul, I. (2005). Social preferences and the response to incentives: Evidence from personnel data. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), 917-962.

Duncker, K., & Lees, L. S. (1945). On problem-solving. Psychological monographs, 58(5), i.

Lazear, E. P. (2000). Performance pay and productivity. American Economic Review, 90(5), 1346-1361.

List, J. A., Shaikh, A. M., & Xu, Y. (2019). Multiple hypothesis testing in experimental economics. Experimental Economics, 22(4), 773-793.

Pink, D. H. (2011). Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. Riverhead Books, New York

Shearer, B. (2004). Piece rates, fixed wages and incentives: Evidence from a field experiment. The Review of Economic Studies, 71(2), 513-534.