experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to … inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent … competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging significantly behind, and frontrunners do not slack …

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. …

information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i …) sensational news about immigrant crimes, (ii) statistical information about immigration, or to (iii) the combination of both … theft news, while having a similar effect on factual beliefs. Second, we document that information provision corrects …