work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …

implemented by the players. Institutional costs, remaining free‐riding incentives, and a lack of learning opportunities are the …

literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …