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A lot of economic and social situations can be described as contests in which agents need to distribute scare resources. Individual behavior plays an important role within these situations, while identity strongly impacts on behavior. This paper asks how group identity impacts the provision of a...
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A lot of economic and social situations can be described as contests in which agents need to distribute scare resources. Individual behavior plays an important role within these situations, while identity strongly impacts on behavior. This paper asks how group identity impacts the provision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945786
provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as …
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, we conducted a tennis field experiment. In the experiment, we also varied the payment schemes (individual, team …, competition) to control for moderating effects of different incentives. Team incentives, risk taking, and self-esteem reduced … have implications for psychological requirements of competitive and team tasks in business settings. …
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differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …
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Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
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