Background and Previous Experience
Professor David Gill is based at the University of Oxford, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Roger Van Noorden Fellow at Herford College. Professor Gill is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Professor Gill holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Professor Gill’s research focuses on behavioral economics, labor economics, and industrial organization, using a mix of theory and experiments. For example, Professor Gill’s previous research has studied how reference points affect the supply of labor in competitive and cooperative environments, how men and women’s efforts respond differently to the outcome of earlier competitions, and how bonuses affect the extent of cheating in the workplace.
Current Research at ILR
While visiting ILR, Professor Gill will study how the provision by an employer of different types of informational feedback about employees' rank order in the distribution of output influences how hard the employees choose to work. In particular, the project aims to compare different forms of feedback that vary in the degree to which rank information is made public (for instance to other workers). Professor Gill’s collaborators on this project include Victoria Prowse (Assistant Professor in ILR’s Economics group) and Jaesun Lee (Ph.D student in Economics at Cornell).
- David Gill
