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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests

Benistant, Julien - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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Saving Face and Group Identity

Eriksson, Tor - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...

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Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Beugnot, Julie - 2017

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test by means of a...

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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Rosaz, Julie - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie - 2013

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...

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Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior : Experimental Evidence

Hogarth, Robin M. - 2010

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real-effort experiment in which individuals had to...

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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary - 2010

In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...

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Effort and Comparison Income : Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

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Endogenous Leadership : Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not … composition of the team also matters, as publicizing certain attributes of a subject's teammates has an impact on her decision to … lead. Lastly, though voluntary leaders improve efficiency in their team, they are not necessarily more influential than …

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