Arbeitspapier

Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance

We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and separations from teams in a manner that closely resembles workers and firms when individual productivity would have been perfectly observable. From our analysis we conclude that individual performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6387

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Subject
age
performance
attrition
Arbeitsgruppe
Motivation
Leistungsmotivation
Professioneller Sport
Italien

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Filippin, Antonio
van Ours, Jan C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2012

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146623
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Filippin, Antonio
  • van Ours, Jan C.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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