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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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Relative performance feedback to teams
Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018
Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …
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Group contests with complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort : evidence from the field and from the lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012
Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015
In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...
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Signing distortions in optimal tax and other adverse selection problems with random participation
Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023
We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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Gift exchange in the lab - it is not (only) how much you give ...
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Steve - 2010
An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to "repay the gift" to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker's effort...
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