intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …

relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …

fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …

hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a … field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …

supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average … reciprocal or intrinsically motivated and, indeed, these types respond as theory would predict: reciprocators return wage gifts …