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Employer Expectations, Peer Effects and Productivity: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
John J. Horton
This paper reports the results of a series of field experiments designed to investigate how peer effects operate in a real work setting. Workers were hired from an online labor mar…
The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
John J. Horton, David G. Rand, Richard J. Zeckhauser
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to con…
The Condition of the Turking Class: Are Online Employers Fair and Honest?
John Horton
Online labor markets give people in poor countries direct access to buyers in rich countries. Economic theory and empirical evidence strongly suggest that this kind of access impro…
The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing
John Horton, Lydia Chilton
Crowdsourcing is a form of "peer production" in which work traditionally performed by an employee is outsourced to an "undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an…