Episode 18: Namrata Kala on Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity

Namrata Kala is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

The paper discussed in this episode is Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity, by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham.

Namrata Kala shows that workers become less productive when pollution levels increase. However, attentive managers can ameliorate these negative effects by reallocating workers across tasks.