Arbeitspapier

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 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2011-04

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Thema
Competition
distributional preferences
gender gap

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Balafoutas, Loukas
Kerschbamer, Rudolf
Sutter, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
(wo)
Innsbruck
(wann)
2011

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Balafoutas, Loukas
  • Kerschbamer, Rudolf
  • Sutter, Matthias
  • University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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