Competitive Incentives: Working Harder or Working Smarter?
实验发现竞争激励让人更卖力但不一定更聪明，女性尤其明显，对设计激励机制有参考价值。
Almost all jobs require a combination of cognitive effort and labor effort. This paper focuses on the effect that competitive incentive schemes have on the chosen combination of these two types of efforts. We use an experimental approach to show that competitive incentives may induce agents to work harder but not necessarily smarter. This effect was stronger for women. This paper was accepted by John List, behavioral economics.