2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.06.017
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The daily grind: Cash needs and labor supply

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“…workers are willing to pay for faster peers, a shame-type mechanism can only be operative inasmuch as it serves as a commitment device, inducing workers to reach a higher level of effort that they truly would like to achieve. This type of behavior would be consistent with the commitment and goal-setting behavior observed in Kaur, Kremer, and Mullainathan (2010) and Dupas, Robinson, and Saavedra (2018).…”
Section: Psychological Mechanisms: Motivation Vs Shamesupporting
confidence: 84%
“…workers are willing to pay for faster peers, a shame-type mechanism can only be operative inasmuch as it serves as a commitment device, inducing workers to reach a higher level of effort that they truly would like to achieve. This type of behavior would be consistent with the commitment and goal-setting behavior observed in Kaur, Kremer, and Mullainathan (2010) and Dupas, Robinson, and Saavedra (2018).…”
Section: Psychological Mechanisms: Motivation Vs Shamesupporting
confidence: 84%
“…If our results hold in other settings, then in agriculture-based lowincome countries, asking about farm activities 6-12 months after they have ended will lead to exaggerated estimates of the total days and hours household members spend working on their plots and farms. These findings may even hold outside the context of agriculture, for instance, in settings in which some but not other components of the labor calculation face considerable variability (for example, see Dupas, Robinson, and Saavedra 2015).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Yet, it is still poorly understood how the bracketing of goals matters. For example, taxi drivers often appear to set narrowly bracketed goals corresponding to a daily income target (Camerer et al 1997, Dupas andRobinson 2016). At first glance, this is puzzling.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%