【时   间】2019年11月15日（周五）12：00—13：30
【地   点】中国人民大学明德主楼623会议室
【主   题】A Gift with Thoughtfulness: A Field Experiment on Work Incentives
【主讲人】刘潇， 清华大学经济管理学院经济系副教授
【主持人】王湘红，中国人民大学经济学院教授
【点评人】陆方文，中国人民大学经济学院教授

【摘要】We conduct a field experiment to investigate whether and how different forms of monetary gifts influence workers' performance in the workplace. Undergraduate students are hired for a temporary research assistant job at a Chinese university. At the end of the pre-announced task, they are surprised with a monetary gift and decide whether to help with some additional work under a less appealing pay scheme. We find that a more thoughtful presentation of the gift cash enclosed in a red envelope, in general, outperforms cash only by increasing workers' overall performance and willingness to help and to trade off a high quality of work for quantity. Workers are more likely to perceive the thoughtful gift as the employer's appreciation, which counteracts the negative income effect due to reference dependence.

【主讲人简介】刘潇，清华经管学院经济系副教授。于2006年获得中国人民大学学士学位，2012年获得密歇根大学博士学位。主要研究兴趣包括：实验和行为经济学，市场设计和博弈论，论文发表在Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior，Experimental Economics, International Journal of Game Theory等杂志。荣获密歇根大学Barbour Fellowship, Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, 清华大学经管学院2014科研工作优秀奖，2014先进工作者。目前担任Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics编委。

中国人民大学经济学院
行为和实验经济学研讨会
2019年10月28日