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Marie Claire Villeval

CNRS, France, and IZA, Germany

Publishing an article in IZA World of Labor gives a unique opportunity to create a forum of discussion with academics and policymakers about how labor markets work and evolve

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Author

Current position

Emeritus Research Professor (Directrice de Recherche), CNRS–GATE, University of Lyon; Director of GATE-Lab; Fellow of the EALE; Fellow of the ESA; Department Editor at Management Science, Advisory Editor at Experimental Economics, Honorary Editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Research interest

Experimental economics, behavioral economics, personnel economics, public economics

Website

https://www.iza.org/person/1473/marie-claire-villeval

Past positions

Director of the GATE Research Institute (2007–2015); Member of the French Low-Wage Commission (Groupe d'Experts sur le salaire minimum) (2017-2024)

Qualifications

PhD, University Paris X-Nanterre, 2003; Habilitation, University Lyon 2, 1996

Selected publications

  • "Mindfulness training, Stress and Cognitive Performance." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 217 (2024): 207-226 (with Charness, G., and Y. Le Bihan).

  • "Why join a team?" Management Science 67:11 (2021), 6980-6997 (with D. Cooper and K. Saral).

  • "Feedback spillovers across tasks, self-confidence and competitiveness." Games and Economic Behavior 123 (2020): 127-170 (with R. Banerjee and N. Datta Gupte).

  • “The dark side of competition for status.” Management Science 60:1 (2014): 38–55 (with G. Charness and D. Masclet).

  • “L’économie comportementale du marché du travail.” Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2016.

article(s)

  • Can lab experiments help design personnel policies?

    Employers can use laboratory experiments to structure payment policies and incentive schemes

    Marie Claire Villeval, November 2016
    Can a company attract a different type of employee by changing its compensation scheme? Is it sufficient to pay more to increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help address these questions by identifying the causal impact of variations in personnel policy on employees’ productivity and mobility. Although they are collected in an artificial environment, the qualitative external validity of findings from the lab is now well recognized.
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