Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; … - In: Journal of Labor Economics 29 (2011) 3, pp. 637-637
Existing field evidence on rank-order tournaments typically does not allow disentangling incentive and sorting effects. We conduct a field experiment illustrating the confounding effect. Students in an introductory microeconomics course selected themselves into tournaments with low, medium, or...