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- Title
Effect of mood and worker incentives on workplace productivity†.
- Authors
Coviello, Decio; Deserranno, Erika; Persico, Nicola; Sapienza, Paola
- Abstract
We study the causal effect of mood on the productivity of call-center workers. Mood is measured through an online "mood questionnaire" which the workers are encouraged to fill out daily. We find that better mood actually decreases worker productivity for workers whose compensation is largely fixed. The negative effect of mood is attenuated for workers whose compensation is based on performance (high-powered incentives). This finding holds both at a correlational level and in two IV settings, where mood is instrumented for by weather or, alternatively, by whether the local professional sports team played/won the day before. We rule out a number of threats to the exclusion restrictions, and discuss the mechanisms that could generate our findings (JEL J24, J28, M52, C26).
- Subjects
MOOD (Psychology); LABOR productivity; INDUSTRIAL productivity; WAGES; JOB performance
- Publication
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 2, p362
- ISSN
8756-6222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jleo/ewac017