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Dynamic incentive effects of team formation : experimental evidence

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2016

has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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Cooperation in a fragmented society : experimental evidence on syrian refugees and natives in Lebanon

Drouvelis, Michalis; Malaeb, Bilal; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2019

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...

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The demand for mobility: evidence from an experiment with Uber riders

Christensen, Peter; Osman, Adam - 2021

Changes in transport costs can affect mobility in ways that differ across the population, affecting the impacts of transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive data on participant mobility using Google Timeline. A...

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Unethical behavior and group identity in contests

Bénistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

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Third-party vs. second-party control : disentangling the role of autonomy and reciprocity

Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon D.; Landini, Fabio - 2015

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....

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Teamwork, leadership and gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

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Effects of timing and reference frame of feedback : evidence from a field experiment

Fischer, Mira; Wagner, Valentin - 2018

Information about past performance has been found to sometimes improve and sometimes worsen subsequent performance. Two … factors may help to explain this puzzle: which aspect of one's past performance the information refers to and when it is …

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Competitive preferences and status as an incentive : experimental evidence

Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

status. Indeed, people increase their effort when they are simply informed about their relative performance, and people pay … both to sabotage others’ output and to artificially increase their own relative performance. In addition, stronger group …

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Intermittent reinforcement and the persistence of behavior : experimental evidence

Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real-effort experiment in which individuals had to...

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