Does Peer Information Crowd Out Performance?

People often struggle to achieve self-improvement goals. In a randomized controlled trial, we nudged participants with peer information to sign up for a goal-setting activity. We find that while nudging leads to a higher sign-up rate relative to the baseline without nudging, it does not always improve performance and can even lead to a lower effort when people do not internalise the value of the goal

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Year of publication:	2022
Authors:	Lee, Grace ; Teo, Jemy ; Xiao, Erte
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Verdrängungseffekt \| Crowding out \| Soziale Gruppe \| Social group \| Experiment \| Informationsverbreitung \| Information dissemination

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (20 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 13, 2022 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.4164880 [DOI]
Classification:	I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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