So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace.  <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/josh-angrist">Joshua Angrist</a>, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</li><li><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=879471">Zoe Cullen</a>, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.</li><li><a href="https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/955361-marina-gertsberg">Marina Gertsberg</a>, senior lecturer in finance at the University of Melbourne.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li>"<a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.38.1.153">Is Pay Transparency Good?</a>" by Zoë Cullen (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://cepr.org/publications/dp18969">DP18969 Economics Coauthorships in the Aftermath of MeToo</a>," by Noriko Amano-Patino, Elisa Faraglia, and Chryssi Giannitsarou (CEPR Discussion Paper, 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews#intro">The Underground Economy of Company Reviews</a>," by Shikhar Sachdev (Career Fair, 2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w30821">Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?</a>" by Peter Q. Blair and Benjamin Posmanick (NBER Working Paper, 2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105976">The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo: Evidence from Research Collaborations</a>," by Marina Gertsberg (SSRN, 2022).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=58450">Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms</a>," by Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato (Management Science, 2021).</li><li>"<a href="https://zcullen.github.io/assets/docs/w28903_3cf6cf0c-f05e-4665-a638-61986faa4c50.pdf">Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency</a>," by Zoe B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson (NBER Working Paper, 2021).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w24841">How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons</a>," by Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia (NBER Working Paper, 2018).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/a-wall-street-rule-for-the-metoo-era-avoid-women-at-all-cost?sref=6DPKmIax">Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost</a>," by Gillian Tan and Katia Porzecanski (Bloomberg, 2018).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/programs-projects/projects-and-centers/retirement-and-disability-research-center/center-papers/drc-nb16-07">A Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of US Disability Discrimination Laws on the Employment of the Disabled Population</a>," by Patrick Button, Philip Armour, and Simon Hollands (NBER Working Paper, 2016).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/322836">Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act</a>," by Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist (Journal of Political Economy, 2001).</li></ul></li></ul>

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