Putting Teams into the Gig Economy: A Field Experiment at a Ride-Sharing Platform

The authors thank George Akerlof, Roland Bénabou, Ceren Budak, Alain Cohn, Donna Harris, Rachel Kranton, Erin Krupka, Steve Leider, Jingfeng Lu, Dilip Mookherjee, Daniel Romero, and Tanya Rosenblat as well as seminar and conference participants at the Monash University Prato Center, University of Michigan, the Economics Research Network on Identity, Norms and Narratives (2019, London, UK), Monash Conference on Social Influence, the 2019 Economic Science Association meetings (Los Angeles, CA), and the 2020 North America Economic Science Association meetings (online) for helpful comments. The authors thank Miao Liang, Mei Mei, Tao Song, Guobin Wu, and Lulu Zhang for their help in implementing the experiment. Three anonymous referees and an associate editor provided insightful comments which significantly improved the paper. Anonymized and deidentified data are available on a secure server located in the platform headquarters in Beijing to any researcher for purposes of reproducing or extending the analysis. The platform contact email is [email protected].