This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … ; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …

personnel records, survey data, and lab and field experiments to study them in detail. We argue that the complementary use of …

for model uncertainty. The corrected estimates are zero or tiny across contexts of field experiments, including … estimation technique. Laboratory experiments produce statistically significant estimates on average after correction for …

We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments …