receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort experiment, we aim to discover whether workers respond to the specific …

a real‐effort laboratory experiment, we cleanly identify the causal effect of an early success in a competition. We …

confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … decision maker’s ignorance about her own characteristics or performance and, thus, deals with confidence. We design a … multistage experiment where subjects face different sources of ambiguity and where we are able to control for self …

confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …