Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball

Keywords

Productivity Spillovers, Basketball

Abstract

We estimate a model where workers are heterogeneous both in their own productivity and in their ability to facilitate the productivity of others. We use data from professional basketball to measure the importance of peers in productivity because we have clear measures of output and members of a worker’s group change on a regular basis. Our empirical results highlight that productivity spillovers play an important role in team production. Despite this, we find that worker compensation is largely determined by own productivity with little weight given to productivity spillovers.

Original Publication Citation

Arcidiacono, Peter; Josh Kinsler, and Joseph Price. “Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball” Journal of Labor Economics, 35(1): 191-225, 2017.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2017

Publisher

University of Chicago

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Economics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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