survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special …, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual …

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an … appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze …

contestants. Focusing on the two most widely studied types of contest success functions (deterministic all-pay-auctions and logit … CSFs), we show that an all-pay auction is always the preferred CSF from the point of view of the contest designer. This … result provides a new political-economic micro foundation to some of the most commonly used models in the contest literature. …

academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …