ECIN Replication Package for "Evidence on quality spillovers from speed enhancing policies in the workplace"

This package includes the code to replicate all tables and figures in the manuscript. The data for this project were shared with the authors under a nondisclosure agreement and are not included, however we have included a data dictionary that describes the variables needed to reproduce our analysis. We encourage researchers interested replicating the analysis to reach out to the first author with their request - the firm that provided the data is often willing to share the data for research and teaching purposes. Abstract: Empirical researchers often consider a single determinant of labor productivity: speed. This paper asks whether they are neglecting spillovers on output quality. Using high-frequency data on the speed and quality of strawberry harvesters’ work, we offer novel evidence that two distinct workplace policies associated with increases in worker speed lead to similar decreases in the quality of their work. We find that both peer speed and wage changes boost worker speed and lower output quality; 10 percent increases in speed are associated with reductions in quality on the order of 1.5 to 1.7 percent.