) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …

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 …