composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …

A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …

When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … allowing subjects to self-select into different payment schemes helps in reducing the variability of performance in tournaments …

players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. -- sports economics ; tournaments ; incentives …