Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who … individual performance, and that the selected pool of tournament winners may be inefficient. In this paper, we study the … empirical validity of such claims in a real-effort pair-wise tournament between children from two similar schools who …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …

in a tournament with a real effort task and choose whether they want to have a complimentary safeguard that guarantees …

? We conduct a modified dictator game experiment in which either the decision maker or a spokesperson communicates the …

experiment provides prima facie evidence: i) the signal jamming mechanism successfully creates incentives on the labor supply …