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%T Peers at work: Evidence from the lab %A Veldhuizen, Roel van %A Oosterbeek, Hessel %A Sonnemans, Joep %J PLOS ONE %N 2 %P 1-15 %V 13 %D 2018 %K laboratory experiment; peer effects; peer group; productivity; work habits %@ 1932-6203 %~ WZB %X This paper reports the results of a lab experiment designed to study the role of observability for peer effects in the setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task. We vary whether they can observe, or be observed by, one of their co-workers. In contrast to earlier findings from the field, we find no evidence that low-productivity workers perform better when they are observed by high-productivity co-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high-productivity co-worker but others taking the opportunity to free ride. %C USA %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info