WORKING PAPERS
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, Tobias Kretschmer, and Nick Zubanov. Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control. ECONtribute discussion paper 304. [AEA pre-registration]
Kevin Bryan, Mitchell Hoffman, and Amir Sariri. Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups. Revised & Resubmitted, AEJ Applied. NBER Working Paper 30449. [Pre-analysis plan][Supplementary Materials]
Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance. NBER Working Paper 30933. [Control Video] [Information Video] [Information+Stigma Video] [Pre-analysis Plan]
Mitchell Hoffman and Stephen Burks. Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Labor Economics. NBER Working Paper 23247.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Mitchell Hoffman and Christopher Stanton. "People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics." Handbook Chapter, forthcoming in the Handbook of Labor Economics, 2025. NBER Working Paper 32849.
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, and Nick Zubanov. What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice. Journal of Political Economy, 2023, Vol. 131(3), pp. 633-686. [Web Appendix][ERP Examples][Replication]. Finalist for the 2024 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, and Behavioral Economics.
Zoe Cullen, Will Dobbie, and Mitchell Hoffman. Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, Vol. 138(1), pp. 103-150. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Mitchell Hoffman and Steven Tadelis. People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis. Journal of Political Economy, 2021, Vol. 129(1), pp. 243-285. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Alan Gerber, Mitchell Hoffman, John Morgan, and Collin Raymond. One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout. AEJ-Applied, 2020, Vol. 12(3), pp. 287-325. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Mitchell Hoffman and Elizabeth Lyons. A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use for State Politicians. Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, Vol. 53(3), pp. 1318-1358. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Mitchell Hoffman and Stephen Burks. Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Firm Profits. Quantitative Economics, 2020, Vol. 11(1), 315-348. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Mitchell Hoffman, Lisa B. Kahn, Danielle Li. Discretion in Hiring. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, Vol. 133(2), 765-800. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Mitchell Hoffman. The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals in Developed Countries. IZA World of Labor, 2017, Vol. 369, pp. 1-8.
Mitchell Hoffman, Gianmarco Leon, Maria Lombardi. Compulsory Voting, Turnout, and Government Spending: Evidence from Austria. Journal of Public Economics, 2017, Vol. 145, 103-115. [Web Appendix][Replication][Our VoxEU column]
Mitchell Hoffman. How is Information Valued? Evidence from Framed Field Experiments. The Economic Journal, 2016, Vol. 126(595), pp. 1884-1911. [Web Appendix][Replication]
Stephen Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, and Michael Housman. The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, Vol. 130(2), pp. 805-839. [Web Appendix]
Mitchell Hoffman and John Morgan. Who's Naughty? Who's Nice? Social Preferences in Online Industries. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, Vol. 109, pp. 173-187. [Web Appendix]
Mitchell Hoffman. Does Higher Income Make You More Altruistic? Evidence from the Holocaust. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, Vol. 93(3), pp. 876-887. [Web Appendix] [Replication]
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Zoe Cullen, Mitchell Hoffman, and Felix Koenig. "Wage-surging: Labor Shortages and Firm Search." In progress.
Ratchanon Chotiputsilp, Mitchell Hoffman, Taeho Kim, and Shing-yi Wang. "Job Rotation and Worker Performance." In progress. Accepted via pre-publication review at Journal of Development Economics. Final publication venue is unknown.