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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Real-Effort task"”.
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Overconfidence and Contracts : An Experiment
… affects the choice over contracts in a real-effort task by using three different measures of overconfidence: miscalibration, illusion of control, and overplacement. We find that overplacement, which is the only measure related to the task, has a significant effect on the choice over …
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Agents’ Performance and Emotions: An Experimental Investigation
… and pressure can induce agents to exert more effort, according to theories of anxiety in psychology. The negative valence associated to this emotion might propose an impairment in performance. On the contrary, the laboratory economic experiment I have run shows that when an anxious mood is …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
… were generated either by performance in a real-effort task (merit) or by random chance (luck). Participants then make decisions in three canonical games: the trust game, the stag-hunt game, and the prisoner’s dilemma. The results show that inequality weakens trustworthiness and coordination …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… about their expected relative performance in a real-effort task using an incentive-compatible mechanism for belief elicitation. We then combined these self-confidence measures with a unique dataset on the social network of the participants to investigate whether there are peer effects in …