Associate Professor of Management
Research Areas
Labor economics; personnel economics; behavioral economics; political economy; contract theory
Current Projects
Interaction between workplace incentives and social networks; Design and implementation of field experiments in Personnel Economics; Rank Preferences and Status; Political institutions and the Efficiency of Public Good Provision.
Representative Publications
(with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul)
“Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data.” Econometrica (forthcoming 2009).
(with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul)
“Social Incentives in the Workplace.” Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming 2009).
(with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul)
“Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 122(2), 729-773 (May 2007).
(with Ben Lockwood)
“Decentralization, and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons.” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 91 (5-6), 1197-1218 (June 2007).
(joint with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul)
“Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 120(3), 917-962 (August 2005).
Education
PhD, University of Warwick, 2004; MSc, University of Warwick, 1999; BSc, University of Lausanne, 1998
Recent Consulting
Workplace Incentives for a broad range of industries
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
IZA Young Labor Economist Award, Institute for the Study of Labor, 2008
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2008-present. Previous apoointments: Essex University; University of Warwick
Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research; Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)