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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"real-effort tasks"”.
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Three Essays on the Economics of Philanthropy
… set goals for themselves engaging in real effort tasks. Participants obtain prosocial rewards only when they reach their goals. My results show that workers who receive prosocial incentives improve their performance by setting higher goals and achieving them. Moreover, when provided …
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Using laboratory experiments to study otherwise unobservable labor market interactions
… from standard theory to actual outcome in the real world. Our experiments can even provide valuable information on how people behave in situations where existing theory provides little or no guide to what should happen.</p> <p>In our first experiment, we study the impact of specific incentive …
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Essays on Social Influences in Decision Making
… affect a non-competitor’s performance in similar tasks. These experiments provide confirmatory and process evidence for this contagion effect, showing that it is driven by heightened social comparison motivation due to mere awareness of the competition. In addition, the study finds evidence that …