Erina Ytsma

Erina Ytsma is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (2015), with prior degrees from Tilburg University and University College Utrecht. Her research focuses on incentive systems, organizational dynamics in the digital/knowledge economy, and labor economics. Key themes include performance pay effects, spillovers in knowledge work, and digitization impacts on work structures.

Education: PhD Economics (LSE, 2015), MRes Economics (LSE, 2010), MPhil Economics (Tilburg, 2008), BSc (Utrecht, 2004).

Research emphasizes empirical analysis of work organization in digital contexts, exploring topics like gender differences in incentive responsiveness and innovation in public sector institutions. She has held visiting roles at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and affiliations with IZA, CESifo, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Work (2020–2022).

Teaching includes courses on financial and managerial accounting at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Professional activities span journal refereeing (e.g., Labour, Econometrica), grant evaluations, and academic committee service.