The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE MORALE EFFECTS OF PAY INEQUALITY Emily Breza Supreet Kaur Yogita Shamdasani Working Paper 22491 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22491 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 August 2016 We thank James Andreoni, Dan Benjamin, Stefano DellaVigna, Pascaline Dupas, Edward Glaeser, Robert Gibbons, Uri Gneezy, Seema Jayachandran, Lawrence Katz, Peter Kuhn, David Laibson, Ulrike Malmendier, Bentley MacLeod, Sendhil Mullainathan, Mark Rosenzweig, Bernard Salanie, and Eric Verhoogen for their helpful comments. Arnesh Chowdhury, Mohar Dey, Piyush Tank, and Deepak Saraswat provided outstanding research assistance. We gratefully acknowledge operational support from JPAL South Asia and financial support from the National Science Foundation, the IZA Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries (GLM-LIC) program, and the Private Enterprise Development for Low Income Countries (PEDL) initiative. The project was registered in the AEA RCT Registry, ID 0000569. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2016 by Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, and Yogita Shamdasani. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, and Yogita Shamdasani NBER Working Paper No. 22491 August 2016 JEL No.
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