How to Pave the Road to Hell

So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace. SOURCES: Joshua Angrist , professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zoe Cullen , professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Marina Gertsberg , senior lecturer in finance at the University of Melbourne. RESOURCES: " Is Pay Transparency Good? " by Zoë Cullen ( Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024). " DP18969 Economics Coauthorships in the Aftermath of MeToo ," by Noriko Amano-Patino, Elisa Faraglia, and Chryssi Giannitsarou ( CEPR Discussion Paper, 2024). " The Underground Economy of Company Reviews ," by Shikhar Sachdev ( Career Fair, 2023). " Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? " by Peter Q. Blair and Benjamin Posmanick ( NBER Working Paper, 2023). " The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo: Evidence from Research Collaborations ," by Marina Gertsberg ( SSRN, 2022). " Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms ," by Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato ( Management Science, 2021). " Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency ," by Zoe B. Cullen a…