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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition Among University Students
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 5844
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Information and Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Broadband Internet
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 11065
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Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8732
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Cooperation or Competition? A Field Experiment on Non-monetary Learning Incentives
In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 1753-1792
ISSN: 1935-1682
Abstract
We assess the effect of two antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes based on grading rules on students' effort, using experimental data. We randomly assigned students to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between paired up students, a cooperative scheme that promotes information sharing and collaboration between students and a baseline treatment in which students can neither compete nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces higher effort with respect to cooperation, whereas cooperation does not increase effort with respect to the baseline treatment. Nonetheless, we find a strong gender effect since this result holds only for men while women do not react to this type of non-monetary incentives.