Publications
Armouti-Hansen, J., Cassar, L. and Dereky, A., Engl, F. (2024) “Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents” Games and Economic Behavior, 145, 66-83.
Cotofan, M., Cassar, L., Dur, R. and Meier, S. (2023) “Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-7, Featured in Forbes, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dire, ZEIT Campus and The Guardian
Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2021) “Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives” The Economic Journal, 131(637), 1988-2017; Featured in HBR.org and The Wall Street Journal
Cassar, L. and Armouti-Hansen, J. (2020) “Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Project Mission” Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5), 2647-2676.
Cassar, L. and Klein, A. H. (2019) “A Matter of Perspective: How Failure Shapes Distributive Preferences ” Management Science, 65(11), 4951-5448.
Cassar, L. (2019) “Job Mission as a Substitute for Monetary Incentives: Benefits and Limits” Management Science, 65(2), 896-912.
Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2018) “Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning ” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(3), 215-38.
Aghion, P., Bechtold, S., Cassar, L. and Herz, H. (2018) “The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation: Experimental Evidence” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 34(2), 162-195.
Cassar, L. (2007) “Convergence, Inequality and Education in the Galor and Zeira Model” Rivisita di Politica Economica, 97(6), 229-254.
Working Papers
Cassar, L.; Fischer, M. and Valero, V. (2022) “Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short vs. Long Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Academic Performance” Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Old Work
Cassar, L. (2010) “Revisiting Informality: Evidence from Employment Characteristics and Job Satisfaction in Chile” OPHI Working Paper No. 41