Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/218906 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2020-201
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the task requires low collaborative efforts, the team performance of self-selected teams is significantly inferior to that of randomly assigned teams. When the task involves more collaborative efforts, self-selected teams tend to outperform randomly assigned teams. We observe assortative matching in self-selected teams, with subjects more likely to match with those of similar ability and the same gender.
Subjects: 
Team Performance
Self-selection
Field Experiment
Education
JEL: 
I21
M54
C93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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