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Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018

We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017

If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence

Sakha, Sahra; Grohmann, Antonia - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...

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Willingness to volunteer among remote workers is insensitive to the team size

Hillenbrand, Adrian; Werner, Tobias; Winter, Fabian - 2022

Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism in the workplace. It emerges naturally in software development or the generation of online knowledge platforms. Using a field experiment with more than 2000 workers, we study the effect of team size on volunteering in an online labor market. In...

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The lifecycle of affirmative action policies and its effect on effort and sabotage behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, Martin - 2023 - This version: May 16, 2023

which individuals participate in a real-effort tournament and can sabotage each other. We find that AA does not necessarily … result in higher effort. High performers that already experienced an existing AA-free tournament reduce their effort levels … after the introduction of the AA policy. Additionally, we observe less sabotage under AA when the tournament started …

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Peer effects of ambition

Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva Goncalves, Juliana - 2019

Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019 - This version: June 2019

This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring...

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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment

Ashraf, Anik - 2019

Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...

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Teacher effectiveness and classroom composition

Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley; … - 2018

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The effect of social comparison on debt taking : experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2019

A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study the eff ects of social image concerns and peer...

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