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Distributional preferences and competitive behavior()
We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given the...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23576829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.018 |
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author | Balafoutas, Loukas Kerschbamer, Rudolf Sutter, Matthias |
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description | We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given the choice between a tournament and a piece rate scheme, efficiency-minded subjects choose the tournament most often, while spiteful and inequality averse subjects avoid it. When controlling for distributional preferences, risk attitudes and past performance, the gender gap in the willingness to compete is no longer significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. |
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spelling | pubmed-36178752013-04-08 Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() Balafoutas, Loukas Kerschbamer, Rudolf Sutter, Matthias J Econ Behav Organ Article We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given the choice between a tournament and a piece rate scheme, efficiency-minded subjects choose the tournament most often, while spiteful and inequality averse subjects avoid it. When controlling for distributional preferences, risk attitudes and past performance, the gender gap in the willingness to compete is no longer significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. North-Holland Pub. Co 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3617875/ /pubmed/23576829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.018 Text en © 2012 Elsevier B.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) license |
spellingShingle | Article Balafoutas, Loukas Kerschbamer, Rudolf Sutter, Matthias Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title | Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title_full | Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title_fullStr | Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title_full_unstemmed | Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title_short | Distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
title_sort | distributional preferences and competitive behavior() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23576829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.018 |
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