2017
DOI: 10.1086/687529
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball

Abstract: Workers contribute to team production through their own productivity and through their effect on the productivity of other team members. We develop and estimate a model where workers are heterogeneous both in their own productivity and in their ability to facilitate the productivity of others. We use data from professional basketball to measure the importance of peers in productivity because we have clear measures of output, and members of a worker's group change on a regular basis. Our empirical results highl… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
66
1
2

Year Published

2017
2017
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
6
1

Relationship

1
6

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 73 publications
(73 citation statements)
references
References 16 publications
(21 reference statements)
0
66
1
2
Order By: Relevance
“…Statistics of the team and teammates are incorporated as a fourth set of covariates. Because the outcome of football is a team production function, teammates influence each other's performance (Arcidiacono, Kinsler, & Price, ; Georganas, Tonin, & Vlassopoulos, ; Idson & Kahane, ). To control for performance and their teammates' effort, information on the team's (minus the player of observation) average running distance, average age, average height, average tenure, days of rest, and minutes played (to control for sent offs) are included.…”
Section: Empirical Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Statistics of the team and teammates are incorporated as a fourth set of covariates. Because the outcome of football is a team production function, teammates influence each other's performance (Arcidiacono, Kinsler, & Price, ; Georganas, Tonin, & Vlassopoulos, ; Idson & Kahane, ). To control for performance and their teammates' effort, information on the team's (minus the player of observation) average running distance, average age, average height, average tenure, days of rest, and minutes played (to control for sent offs) are included.…”
Section: Empirical Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, Gould and Winter (2009) find that the performance of batters increases with that of other batters on a team. Arcidiacono et al (2017) suggest that this may be the case because pitchers tend to throw fewer balls to avoid a walk based on the hitting ability of subsequent batters. On the defensive side of the ball, Willis (2017) provides the example of a strong field-1 For example, as good as Tom Brady was for the 2017 Super Bowl winning Patriots, arguably the defining play in that year's Super Bowl came while he was not even on the field, and instead when the only quarterback with a higher rating that year was.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A previous study by the author (together with Peter Arcidiacono and Josh Kinsler) contains a large number of background references for the material presented here, and has been used intensively in all major parts of this article [1]. The author would like to thank Michael Gmeiner for excellent research assistance on the original study and Will Cockriel and Jacob Van Leeuwen for excellent research assistance for this article.…”
Section: Acknowledgmentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While many of the insights in this article are drawn from research using data from professional basketball [1], the main findings regarding productivity spillovers are also relevant for other labor markets and firms. The increasing complexity of most production processes requires that even more workers engage in team production.…”
Section: Motivationmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation