With more individuals wanting their work to be meaningful, rather than just a source of
income, more organizations recognize that fostering meaningful work is crucial for engaging …

Can social–psychological theory provide insight into the extreme racial disparities in school
disciplinary action in the United States? Disciplinary problems carry enormous …

It has been documented that there is a positive relationship between a worker's subjective
well-being and productivity, and individuals who are happy in their work have a better …

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the relationship between
positive affect and productivity. We link highly detailed administrative data on the behaviors …

Empirical research in economics has begun to explore the idea that workers care about
nonmonetary aspects of work. An increasing number of economic studies using survey and …

We demonstrate why meaningful work, ie job-related activities that individuals view as
purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination …

While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend
money on products that signal status, this article investigates conspicuous consumption in …

This paper examines the effects of employer social responsibility on the wages workers
demand through randomized field experiments in two online labor marketplaces. Workers …

In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of
Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the …

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on
approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We …