The Visible Hand

The paper discussed in this episode is "Simple Actions, Complex Habits: Lessons from Hospital Hand Hygiene”, by Alex Wellsjo.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Dai, H., Milkman, K. L., Hofmann, D. A., & Staats, B. R. (2015). The impact of time at work and time off from work on rule compliance: the case of hand hygiene in health care. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(3), 846.

Holmstrom, B., & Milgrom, P. (1991). Multitask principal-agent analyses: Incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design. JL Econ. & Org., 7, 24.

The paper discussed in this episode is "Daddy's girl: Daughters, managerial decisions, and gender inequality", by Maddalena Ronchi and Nina Smith.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Warner, Rebecca L, “Does the sex of your children matter? Support for feminism among
women and men in the United States and Canada,” Journal of Marriage and the Family,
1991, pp. 1051–1056.

Washington, Ebonya L, “Female socialization: how daughters affect their legislator fathers’
voting on women’s issues,” The American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (1), 311–332.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Defying Distance? The Provision of Services in the Digital Age”, by Amanda Dahlstrand.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Chen, Y., Persson, P., & Polyakova, M. (2019). The roots of health inequality and the value of intra-family expertise (No. w25618). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Graham, B. S., Imbens, G. W., & Ridder, G. (2020). Identification and efficiency bounds for the average match function under conditionally exogenous matching. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 38(2), 303-316.

Kleinberg, J., Lakkaraju, H., Leskovec, J., Ludwig, J., & Mullainathan, S. (2018). Human decisions and machine predictions. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(1), 237-293.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Lerner, J., & Malmendier, U. (2013). With a little help from my (random) friends: Success and failure in post-business school entrepreneurship. The Review of Financial Studies, 26(10), 2411-2452.

Nanda, R., & Sørensen, J. B. (2010). Workplace peers and entrepreneurship. Management Science, 56(7), 1116-1126.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Texting to Save Lives: Evidence from Cardiovascular Treatment Reform in Mexico”, by Ari Bronsoler.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Deshpande, M., & Li, Y. (2019). Who is screened out? Application costs and the targeting of disability programs. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(4), 213-48.

Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India”, by Arkadev Ghosh

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Afridi, F., A. Dhillon, S. X. Li, and S. Sharma (2020). Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India’s manufacturing sector. Journal of Development Economics 144, 102445.

Hjort, J. (2014). Ethnic divisions and production in firms. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1899-1946.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Why Working from Home Will Stick”, by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis.

Other papers mentioned 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.

Bloom, N., Liang, J., Roberts, J., & Ying, Z. J. (2015). Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(1), 165-218.

Mas, A., & Pallais, A. (2017). Valuing alternative work arrangements. American Economic Review, 107(12), 3722-59.

Puga, D. (2010). The magnitude and causes of agglomeration economies. Journal of Regional Science, 50(1), 203-219.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and Productivity in the Emergency Department”, by David Silver.

Other resources mentioned in this episode are:

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Chan, D. C. (2016). Teamwork and moral hazard: evidence from the emergency department. Journal of Political Economy, 124(3), 734-770.

Chan, D. C. (2018). The efficiency of slacking off: Evidence from the emergency department. Econometrica, 86(3), 997-1030.

Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Januszewski Forbes, S., & Lederman, M. (2009). Adaptation and vertical integration in the airline industry. American Economic Review, 99(5), 1831-49.

Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Battiston, Diego, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, and Tom Kirchmaier (2020). Face-to-Face Communication in Organisations. Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

Caliendo, Lorenzo, Ferdinando Monte, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2015). The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies. The Journal of Political Economy 123(4), 809-852.

Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904.

Giroud, Xavier and Holger M. Mueller (2019). Firms' Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks. American Economic Review 109(10), 3617-49.