How do Incentives affect Creativity?

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and that differences in performance are predominantly related to individual skills.

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Year of publication:	2012-12-13
Authors:	Eckartz, Katharina ; Kirchkamp, Oliver ; Schunk, Daniel
Institutions:	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Subject:	Creativity \| Incentives \| Real effort task \| Experimental economics

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Jena Economic Research Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 2012-068
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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