How do incentives affect creativity?

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and that differences in performance are predominantly related to individual skills.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Eckartz, Katharina ; Kirchkamp, Oliver ; Schunk, Daniel
Publisher:	Munich : Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Subject:	Kreativität \| Ökonomischer Anreiz \| Arbeitsleistung \| Qualifikation \| Test \| creativity \| incentives \| real effort task \| experimental economics

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Series:	CESifo Working Paper ; 4049
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	734881835 [GVK] hdl:10419/69595 [Handle]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Source:	EconStor

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