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Selection and incentives under time pressure: the importance of framing

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Pupo, Valeria - 2020

In this paper we investigate whether the framing of the incentives used to foster participation into contexts characterized by high degrees of time pressure affects individuals' self-selection. At this aim we run a lab-in-the-field experiment structured in two parts. The first part investigates...

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Free-riding and knowledge spillovers in teams : the role of social ties

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016

We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...

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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016

We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads … high school grades and each pair was randomly assigned to one of three different tournaments. Random assignment neutralizes … tournaments with large spreads negatively affects the performance of risk-averse students, while it does not produce any effect on …

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Are females scared of competing with males? : results from a field experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...

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