The Dynamics of Learning with Team Production: Implications for Task Assignment
分析企业在需要了解员工能力时如何最优分配任务。当项目需要初级和高级员工合作且只能观察到团队产出时，初级员工在两个项目间分担时间（“分担”）与专注一个项目（“不分担”）对能力学习的影响不同。模型表明，当能力先验不确定性相对于外生冲击较小时，不分担更优。
We analyze optimal task assignment when a firm needs to learn the abilities of employees. When projects require collaboration between juniors and seniors and only team outputs are observable, having juniors divide their time between two projects ("junior sharing") is less informative about their abilities, but more informative about their senior teammates' abilities, than having juniors devote all their time to a single project ("no sharing"). In an overlapping-generations model, we show that no sharing is more (less) attractive than junior sharing if the prior uncertainty about abilities is small (large) relative to exogenous shocks to team production.