-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition …

experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure …

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear … experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the … transitory ability. We also compare the efficiency of an exogenous promotion standard with a treatment where subjects self …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …