When Stars Teach: Skill Excellence and Knowledge Transfer in Apprenticeships
Solo-authored
I analyzed archival productivity records and survey data from a workplace apprenticeship program at a large Chinese port to examine whether high-skilled workers make better mentors, exploiting the quasi-random assignment of apprentices to mentors and independently measured learning outcomes.
Supportive Control, Distracted Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Workplace Health-Tracking Wearabless [paper]
R&R at Journal of Accounting Research
with Yaxuan Chen and Timo Vogelsang
We conducted a randomized field experiment at a seaport to examine the impact of health-tracking smartwatches on worker productivity, finding that real-time health notifications reduced productivity by diverting workers' attention.
AI Camera as a Control Technology: Evidence from the Field [paper]
With Chung-Yu Hung, Anson Jiang, and Fan Wu
We obtained proprietary operational data from a seaport firm to examine the impact of AI-enabled cameras on worker productivity, finding that enabling AI improves performance while coercive surveillance reduces it.
Competition and Employee Selection
With Anson Jiang and Sujay Nair
We used school-level hiring and performance data from Victoria, Australia to examine how competition influences employee selection, showing that competition strengthens selection practices while shifting hiring priorities from social skills toward task-specific skills.
LLMs, Compliance, and Decision-Making in Organizations: A Field Experiment
With Aixin Cui, Junzhe Jiang, Boyang Li and Qi Zhang
We conduced a randomized field experiment in a commercial aquaculture company to examine how employee access to AI forecasts and LLM assistants affects compliance with managerial directives.
Whistleblowing and Identity
With Timo Vogelsang and Hari Ramasubramanian
We conducted a 2×2 online lab experiment to investigate identity as a form of cultural control, finding that organizational identity mitigates the negative effect of team identity on employee misconduct reporting.