Representing your colleagues

Sick of your colleagues’ absence?

We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other’s effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the treatment status of all workers in more than 3,000 workplaces. We first document that employees in work...

Friends, colleagues, authors, lend us your data

Traditional publication media can­ not accommodate the multidimension­ ality, high resolution, and increasing volume of data produced by current imaging technology. A further barrier to sharing contemporary image data is the variety of proprietary file formats (PFFs) generated by an assortment of micro­ scopes (Linkert et al., 2010). To address these limitations, the JCB developed the DataViewe...

How loudly should you hear your colleagues and yourself?

Dear colleagues — and other colleagues

I reckon that taken together these excellent reviews exceed the number of words in What kinship is—and is not by a considerable margin. Moreover, considering that the range of these opinions on the proposed notion of kinship as mutuality of being runs from “intuitively graspable” to “fundamentally inscrutable,” the disorder being sown by this small book would seem to qualify it as an exercise i...

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