Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who … individual performance, and that the selected pool of tournament winners may be inefficient. In this paper, we study the … empirical validity of such claims in a real-effort pair-wise tournament between children from two similar schools who …

This paper studies the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on individual performance and on … perform a real effort task and when receiving feedback, they are asked to rate their happiness, arousal and feeling of … performance in the session. Performance is 17 percent higher when relative performance feedback is provided. Furthermore, although …

We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance, when individuals are … rewarded according to their absolute performance. A natural experiment that took place in a high school offers an unusual …

in their experimental firm (full feedback) or observe only the minimum effort (limited feedback). We find three primary … results: (1) The use of full feedback improves the ability of organizations to overcome coordination failure, (2) The use of … full feedback has no effect on the ability of successful organizations to avoid slipping into coordination failure, and (3 …