Universität zu Köln

Bigoni, Maria ORCID: 0000-0001-5988-6115, Fort, Margherita, Nardotto, Mattia and Reggiani, Tommaso G. (2015). Cooperation or Competition? A Field Experiment on Non-monetary Learning Incentives. B E J. Econ. Anal. Policy, 15 (4). S. 1753 - 1793. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1935-1682

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bigoni, Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5988-6115 UNSPECIFIED Fort, Margherita UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Nardotto, Mattia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Reggiani, Tommaso G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-390231
DOI:	10.1515/bejeap-2014-0109
Journal or Publication Title:	B E J. Econ. Anal. Policy
Volume:	15
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 1753 - 1793
Date:	2015
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1935-1682
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ACHIEVEMENT EVIDENCE; GENDER-GAP Multiple languages Economics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39023