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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...

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Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter?

Örs, Evren; Palomino, Frédéric; Peyrache, Eloïc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance …

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Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

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Suspense

Chan, William M; Courty, Pascal; Li, Hao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In a dynamic model of sports competition, we show that when spectators care only about the level of effort exerted by contestants, rewarding schemes that depend linearly on the final score difference provide more efficient incentives for efforts than schemes based only on who wins and loses....

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Contract Renewal and Incentives in Public Procurement

Dalen, Dag Morten; Moen, Espen R; Riis, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

tournament where they are ranked according to the quality of their services, and rewarded in terms of contract renewals. We …

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The Supermodular Stochastic Ordering

Meyer, Margaret A; Strulovici, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In many economic applications involving comparisons of multivariate distributions, supermodularity of an objective function is a natural property for capturing a preference for greater interdependence. One multivariate distribution dominates another according to the `supermodular stochastic...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...

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Splitting Tournaments

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

high-prize tournament, while low-ability agents compete for the low prize. However, there are also equilibria in which … agents follow a mixed strategy and there can be reverse sorting, i.e. low-ability agents are in the tournament with the high … prize, while high-ability agents are in the low-prize tournament. We show that total effort always decreases compared to a …

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Joint Production in Teams

Battaglini, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Consider Holmström.s moral hazard in teams problem when there are n agents, each agent i has a a …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions against our data. We find that team size affects the...

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