of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …

We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring … cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the … spatially differentiated competition is characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spillovers: Donors sort …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …