Arbeitspapier
The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ
This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as a result performance. The presence of incentive payments seems to be more important than the size of the reward. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7182
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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incentives
cognitive test scores
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Borghans, Lex
Meijers, Huub
ter Weel, Bas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Borghans, Lex
- Meijers, Huub
- ter Weel, Bas
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2013
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