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Girls' and boys' performance in competitions : what we can learn from a Korean quiz show
Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...
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Rank-order tournaments, probability of winning and investing in talent : evidence from Champions League qualifying rules
Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando; Simmons, Robert - 2015
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design
Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2 …
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Emotions and the optimality of unfair tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias - 2005
-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … from emotional workers. In this case, he clearly prefers unfair to fair tournaments. Furthermore, the concept of emotions … is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments. …
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Performance in mixed-sex and single-sex tournaments : what we can learn from speedboat races in Japan
Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We …
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Complementarity of performance pay and task allocation
Hong, Bryan; Küng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2016
Complementarity between performance pay and other organizational design elements has been argued to be one potential explanation for stark differences in the observed productivity gains from performance pay adoption. Using detailed data on internal organization for a nationally representative...
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Empowerment and the dark side of delegation
Kräkel, Matthias - 2018
The existing delegation literature has focused on different preferences of principal and agent concerning project selection, which makes delegating authority costly for the principal. This paper shows that delegation has a cost even when the preferences of principal and agent are exogenously...
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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...
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Social norms and firms’ discriminatory pay-setting
Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2012
This study analyzes the relationship between discriminatory social attitudes and the variation of within-firm pay gaps by combining data on regional votes on gender equality laws with a data set of multi-establishments firms and their workers. The data set allows us for the first time to study...
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