experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game … and a safe outside option. We analyze subjects' entry behavior with a benchmark treatment without information and three …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups …

our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …

experiment in which effort, quality adjusted output and office politics are compared under piece rates and tournaments. Our …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

her information. Having presented our formal analysis, we test these results using data from laboratory experiments. The …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is …