-of-the-month schemes. The repetition of competitions can imply that opponents are matched based on earlier outcomes. Using a real-effort … experiment, we examine how cheating and effort evolve in two rounds of competitions in which subjects compete with different … regard to effort, which losers increase to a larger extent than winners. (ii) Competitor matching does not significantly …

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are … preferences for redistribution and effort choices simultaneously. While respondents with stronger preferences for redistribution … tend to have smaller incentives to engage in effort, the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that …

overconfident workers exert more effort to be promoted, and even though they have lower expected ability conditional on promotion …, they incur higher effort costs and discourage their peers, and we find that overconfidence can be either self-serving or …

overconfident workers exert more effort to be promoted, and even though they have lower expected ability conditional on promotion …, they incur higher effort costs and discourage their peers, and we find that overconfidence can be either self-serving or …