to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … market design might be necessary to ensure that competition enhances educational performance. -- education ; markets … ; information …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition …. -- competition ; experiment ; information ; overconfidence ; self-assessment ; self-selection ; tournament …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory …

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over … policy to evaluate effectiveness. The best-guess incentives in our initial field experiment turned out to be ineffective at …

In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the …

supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a registry, combines aggregate demand information with supplier …

function ; social preferences ; laboratory experiment ; discriminating mechanism ; mechanism design …

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …