Dargnies, Marie-Pierre; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, … - In: Management Science 65 (2019) 12, pp. 5603-5618
We document experimentally how biased self-assessments affect the outcome of labor markets. In the experiments, we exogenously manipulate the self-confidence of participants in the role of workers regarding their relative performance by employing hard and easy real-effort tasks. Participants in...