Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita; Nardotto, Mattia; … - 2011 - This version: 23 May, 2011
characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces … higher effort with respect to cooperation and cooperation does not increase effort with respect to the baseline. However …
