such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …

the production period, and continuously updated feedback. We use two pay schemes, a piece rate and a tournament. We find … evidence of positive peer effects in tournaments since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging …

-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects … since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging significantly behind, and frontrunners do not slack …

effects vary according to gender : they are large for men but not statistically different from zero for women. …

in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into … enter a tournament instead of a piece-rate payment scheme, the average effort is higher and the between-subject variance is …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …. We show that when the subjects choose to enter a tournament, the average effort is higher and the between …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …. We show that when the subjects choose to enter a tournament, the average effort is higher and the between …

Men are known to have a higher taste for competition than women. This paper presents an experiment that analyses the … different determinants of the choice to enter a competition : beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the … competition is concerned, low-performing subjects adapt their decision entry to the level of the competition, whereas high …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …