#  Alley-oops as workplace cooperation 

 





April 14, 2009

 

 

Here's a paper for the "high internal, low external validity" file (via Kevin Lewis):

> Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBAJoseph Price, Lars Lefgren & Henry Tappen  
> NBER Working Paper, February 2009
> 
> Abstract:  
> Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine  
> whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately  
> among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the  
> composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more  
> likely to complete an assist to a player of the same race than a  
> player of a different race. Our confidence interval allows us to  
> reject even small amounts of same-race bias in passing patterns. Our  
> findings suggest that high levels of interracial cooperation can occur  
> in a setting where workers are operating in a highly visible setting  
> with strong incentives to behave efficiently.

Posted by [Andy Eggers](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/andy-eggers/) at April 13, 2009 6:51 PM



 

 

 



 

 

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