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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...

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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014

incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers …

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The effects of tax salience and tax experience on individual work efforts in a framed field experiment

Fochmann, Martin; Weimann, Joachim - 2011

We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjects and a real tax, which is levied on the subjects' income from working in our real effort task. In our first three treatments, the net wage is constant but gross wages are subject to different constant...

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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab

Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework under individual and joint income taxation systems. In order to eliminate problems of endogenous intra-couple time use decisions, we exogenously varied not only the taxation...

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Which green nudge helps to save energy? Experimental evidence

Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2020

monetary incentives, environmentally related information, social comparison, or a competition to save energy? We try to answer … small field experiment with 36 test-households. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to save energy foster the … monetary incentives – and providing social comparison induced substantial effort in our lab experiment. Extending the social …

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Selection, tournaments, and dishonesty

Faravelli, Marco; Friesen, Lana; Gangadharan, Lata - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 110 (2015), pp. 160-175

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First-place loving and last-place loathing : how rank in the distribution of performance affects effort provision

Gill, David; Kissová, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, … - 2015

structures and incentives schemes. …

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Does legality matter? : the case of tax avoidance and evasion

Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2015 - This version: August 2015

Previous research argues that law expresses social values and could, therefore, influence individual behavior independently of enforcement and penalization. Using three laboratory experiments on tax avoidance and evasion, we study how legality affects individuals' decisions. We find that,...

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Corporate philanthropy and productivity : evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 8, pp. 1795-1811

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Does legality matter? : the case of tax avoidance and evasion

Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2015 - This version: October 2015

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