# Richard B. Freeman ![photo - Richard B. Freeman](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/freeman/files/1_freeman_hi-res_crop_hks-european-conf_mar2014_3200pix.jpg?itok=MbF-fnxm) [CV - 24 Mar 2025](/resource/freeman-cv-march-2025 "Freeman CV - March 2025") [NBER: home page](https://www.nber.org/people/richard_freeman?page=1&perPage=50) [Google Scholar Citations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F4Ua02fkmcDALiVbjTY-D27p_IGB6pXlZregM2eztJ3knC6X0eKjhFoFBtKlViAT3sm2RbfZM6wzZoqJ58rq-tof1URfg&user=u-5ncqYAAAAJ) **Richard B. Freeman** holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at [Harvard University](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/). He is a Research Associate at the [NBER](https://www.nber.org), and is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the [Center for Labor and a Just Economy](https://clje.law.harvard.edu) at the Harvard Law School. ... [Read more](/biocv "Bio & CV") **Office Hours:** In Person - Office Hours: by appointment (contact e-mail below) \- Tues Morn - 10:45am-1:15pm (last appt 12:45pm) \- Tues Aft - 3pm-4pm (last appt 3:30pm) \- Thurs Morn - 10:45am-1:15pm (last appt 12:45pm) Zoom office Hours: by appointment (contact e-mail below) \- Zoom appointment times are more flexible **To book an appt, Write to:** E-mail: + cc: **NOTE:** send your cell phone #, in case the elevators at NBER are locked and Prof. Freeman needs to meet you in the lobby **Office Address:** National Bureau of Economic Research 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 | **Tel:** 617-588-0305 \- *but please use e-mail until further notice* **Staff Support:** Jennifer Amadeo-Holl National Bureau of Economic Research 1050 Mass Ave, 3rd Floor [amadeoholl@gmail.com](mailto:jennifer@nber.org) See [NBER home page](https://www.nber.org/people/richard_freeman?page=1&perPage=50) for projects and working groups See Harvard's [DASH](http://dash.harvard.edu/browse?authority=f3831a00681f9c24d2729b634168e29f&type=harvardAuthor) for articles posted to *Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard*. ## Recent Publications Download 5 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=721886&content_filter%5B1%5D=716721&content_filter%5B2%5D=716711&content_filter%5B3%5D=716706&content_filter%5B4%5D=716701&content_filter%5B5%5D=708081&&format=ris) ### 2025 Freeman RB, Pan X, Yang X, Ye M. [Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106986). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2025. Freeman RB, Pan X, Yang X, Ye M. [Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106986). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2025. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ picture\_as\_pdfRevision 1\_TeamIncentives...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-03/Revision%201_TeamIncentives__Dec16_2024_Final.pdf) Despite a large literature on team incentives, studies on teams in a purely financial sense are limited. In such environments, team members independently engage in tasks with identifiable individual contributions, while their compensation is partially... - [ picture\_as\_pdfRevision 1\_TeamIncentives...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-03/Revision%201_TeamIncentives__Dec16_2024_Final.pdf) ### 2023 Freeman RB, Yang B, Zhang B. [“Data Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth,”75 (March 2023): ](/publications/%E2%80%9Cdata-deepening-and-nonbalanced-economic-growth%E2%80%9D75-march-2023). Journal of Macroeconomics. 2023;75(March). Freeman RB, Yang B, Zhang B. [“Data Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth,”75 (March 2023): ](/publications/%E2%80%9Cdata-deepening-and-nonbalanced-economic-growth%E2%80%9D75-march-2023). Journal of Macroeconomics. 2023;75(March). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103503) As a newly emerging factor, data can promote economic growth by driving technological progress, and nonbalanced growth between digital [industries](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/specific-industry) and nondigital [industries](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/specific-industry) has been notable in recent years. This paper provides a novel growth model with two... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103503) ### 2019 Zhang D, Du W, Zhuge L, Tong Z, Freeman RB. [Do Financial Constraints Curb Firm’s Efforts to Control Pollution? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms.](/publications/do-financial-constraints-curb-firms-efforts-control-pollution-evidence-chinese) Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019;215:1052–1058. Zhang D, Du W, Zhuge L, Tong Z, Freeman RB. [Do Financial Constraints Curb Firm’s Efforts to Control Pollution? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms.](/publications/do-financial-constraints-curb-firms-efforts-control-pollution-evidence-chinese) Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019;215:1052–1058. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.112) Financial constraints have long existed in China's manufacturing sectors. The growth of the manufacturing sector has been slowing in recent years due to increasingly strict environmental regulations that force factories to cut production. In this study... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.112) ### 2020 Zhang D, Zhuge L, Freeman RB. [“Firm Dynamics of Hi-Tech Start-ups: Does Innovation Matter?” Dongyang Zhang, Liqun Zhuge, Richard B. Freeman. China Economic Review 59 (Feb 2020): 1-17.](/publications/%E2%80%9Cfirm-dynamics-hi-tech-start-ups-does-innovation-matter%E2%80%9D-dongyang-zhang-liqun) China Economics Review. 2020;59(February):1–17. Zhang D, Zhuge L, Freeman RB. [“Firm Dynamics of Hi-Tech Start-ups: Does Innovation Matter?” Dongyang Zhang, Liqun Zhuge, Richard B. Freeman. China Economic Review 59 (Feb 2020): 1-17.](/publications/%E2%80%9Cfirm-dynamics-hi-tech-start-ups-does-innovation-matter%E2%80%9D-dongyang-zhang-liqun) China Economics Review. 2020;59(February):1–17. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101370) - [ picture\_as\_pdf1\_ms-dash\_firm\_dynamics\_o...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/1_ms-dash_firm_dynamics_of_hi-tech_starts-ups_cer_01.pdf) Innovation plays a vital role in corporate issues since it brings potentially appreciable profits and shores up their statuses in certain fields, although it may also harness firms, especially smaller ones, with high survival risks. This concern brings... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101370) - [ picture\_as\_pdf1\_ms-dash\_firm\_dynamics\_o...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/1_ms-dash_firm_dynamics_of_hi-tech_starts-ups_cer_01.pdf) Zhang D, Zhuge L, Freeman RB. [Firm Dynamics of Hi-Tech Start-Ups: Does Innovation Matter? ](/publications/firm-dynamics-hi-tech-start-ups-does-innovation-matter) China Economic Review. 2020;59. Zhang D, Zhuge L, Freeman RB. [Firm Dynamics of Hi-Tech Start-Ups: Does Innovation Matter? ](/publications/firm-dynamics-hi-tech-start-ups-does-innovation-matter) China Economic Review. 2020;59. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101370) - [ picture\_as\_pdf1\_ms-dash\_firm\_dynamics\_o...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/1_ms-dash_firm_dynamics_of_hi-tech_starts-ups_cer.pdf) Innovation plays a vital role in corporate issues since it brings potentially appreciable profits and shores up their statuses in certain fields, although it may also harness firms, especially smaller ones, with high survival risks. This concern brings... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101370) - [ picture\_as\_pdf1\_ms-dash\_firm\_dynamics\_o...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/1_ms-dash_firm_dynamics_of_hi-tech_starts-ups_cer.pdf) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/publications)