Descamps, Ambroise; Ke, Changxia; Page, Lionel - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 1, pp. 355-385
We investigate if, and why, an initial success can trigger a string of successes. Using random variations in success in a real‐effort laboratory experiment, we cleanly identify the causal effect of an early success in a competition. We confirm that an early success indeed leads to increased...
