Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore …

consequence, even though firms in our experiment tended to compress wages when wages became public information, this did not raise …

. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In …

, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of … women and thus result in reverse discrimination towards men. Interestingly this need not be the outcome when competitive …

This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …

of which will be chosen for payment). Although there are no gender differences in performance, or beliefs about relative … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … differences in preferences for characteristics of the tasks cannot account for this gender gap. When we allow for a flexible …

question in recent years by the apparent growth of alternative or "nonstandard" arrangements - part-time work, temporary help …

examine whether individuals residing in the same block are more likely to work together than those in nearby blocks. We find …