How to Pave the Road to Hell

So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace.

SOURCES:Joshua Angrist • , professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zoe Cullen • , professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Marina Gertsberg • , senior lecturer in finance at the University of Melbourne.

RESOURCES: • " Is Pay Transparency Good? • " by Zoë Cullen ( Journal of Economic Perspectives, • 2024). • " DP18969 Economics Coauthorships in the Aftermath of MeToo • ," by Noriko Amano-Patino, Elisa Faraglia, and Chryssi Giannitsarou ( CEPR Discussion Paper, • 2024). • " The Underground Economy of Company Reviews • ," by Shikhar Sachdev ( Career Fair, • 2023). • " Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? • " by Peter Q. Blair and Benjamin Posmanick ( NBER Working Paper, • 2023). • " The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo: Evidence from Research Collaborations • ," by Marina Gertsberg ( SSRN, • 2022). • " Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms • ," by Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato ( Management Science, • 2021). • " Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency • ," by Zoe B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson ( NBER Working Paper, • 2021). • " How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons • ," by Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia ( NBER Working Paper, • 2018). • " Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost • ," by Gillian Tan and Katia Porzecanski ( Bloomberg, • 2018). • " A Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of US Disability Discrimination Laws on the Employment of the Disabled Population • ," by Patrick Button, Philip Armour, and Simon Hollands ( NBER Working Paper, • 2016). • " Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act • ," by Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist ( Journal of Political Economy, • 2001).

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