Labor Markets
The Labor Markets research group approaches core topics in labor economics such as workplace incentive schemes, contracts, and job search from a behavioral economics angle.
Representative Publications
"Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Effort Provision" (with Johannes Abeler and Collin Raymond). June 2023.
Uwe Sunde, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Gerrit Meyerheim, Patience and Comparative Development, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 89, Issue 5, October 2022, Pages 2806–2840, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab084
Huffman, David, Collin Raymond, and Julia Shvets. 2022. "Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers." American Economic Review, 112 (10): 3141-75.
Bartling, Björn and Fehr, Ernst and Huffmann, David B. and Netzer, Nick, The Complementary Nature of Trust and Contract Enforcement (2021). CESifo Working Paper No. 8826, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3767698 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3767698
Huffman, D., & Bognanno, M. (2018). High-powered performance pay and crowding out of non-monetary motives. Management Science, 64(10), 4471–4965. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2846
