This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … additional individual characteristics such as subjects’ risk attitudes, measures of selfassessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure …

experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure …

market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …