We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …

players modify their behavior. We conducted a repeated ultimatum game experiment with random strangers, in which one treatment …

Consider team production with two people. Each is characterized by a prior distribution that he will do Right or Wrong … other worker did Right. The same holds when output depends on the best shot in production and the team effort succeeded. A … leader concerned about his reputation may therefore prefer to work with a person unlikely to do Right. …

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …

inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation …

Experiment verhalten sich Soldaten im Durchschnitt signifikant altruistischer, kooperativer, vertrauensvoller und …

reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …