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Working too much for too little: Stochastic rewards cause work addiction
Corgnet, Brice; Gächter, Simon; Hernán González, Roberto - 2020
People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neuroscience research with animals has shown that stochastic rewards may act as a powerful motivator. Applying...
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Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Thöni, Christian; … - 2021
involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant …Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that … anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of two player coordination games and compare the outcomes depending on …
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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre …-registered replication, reveals strong positive associations between group cohesion and performance assessed in weak-link coordination games …
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Reputational concerns in repeated rent-seeking contests
Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke - 2016
We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...
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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies on team performance and the willingness to work in teams. We find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not discourage selection into teams.
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Not all group members are created equal: Heterogeneous abilities in inter-group contests
Fallucchi, Francesco; Fatas, Enrique; Kölle, Felix; … - 2018
Competition between groups is ubiquitous in social and economic life, and groups are typically not created equal. Here we experimentally investigate the implications of this general observation on the unfolding of symmetric and asymmetric competition between groups that are either homogeneous or...
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The impact of pay comparisons on effort behavior
Nosenzo, Daniele - 2010
This study uses a three-person gift-exchange game experiment to examine the impact of pay comparisons on effort behavior. We compare effort choices made in a treatment where workers' wages are secret with effort choices made in two 'public wages' treatments. The two 'public wages' treatments...
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Fundraising through competition: Evidence from the lab
Orzen, Henrik - 2008
This paper investigates mechanisms for the private provision of a public good which utilize competition to incentivize contributions. Theory predicts that 'all-pay' competition is particularly effective for fundraising. Within this class of mechanisms different types of lotteries and all-pay...
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement values: Theory and experiments
Miller, Luis; Montero, Maria; Vanberg, Christoph - 2015
decreasing in disagreement values. We conduct experiments involving three players using majority and unanimity rule, finding …
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