Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study

By Timothy N. Cason, William A. Masters, Roman M. Sheremeta. 2010

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad (2016, background): “…Harbaugh, and Mayr ( 2014 ) show that providing precise relative performance feedback prior to choosing the payment scheme can eliminate the gender gap in willingness to compete, while Cason, Masters, and Sheremeta ( 2010 ) finds a significant gender gap even after providing relative feedback.”
Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence (2013, unknown): “Common examples of deterministic contests are shared rents (Long and Vousden, 1987), profit sharing and labor productivity (Weitzman and Kruse, 1990), labor contracts (Zheng and Vikuna, 2007), and agricultural innovations (Cason et al., 2010).”
Best-of-Three Contest Experiments: Strategic versus Psychological Momentum (2012, unknown): “, 2001), or adding numbers (Cason et al., 2010).”
Facing Your Opponents (2014, unknown): “…(1998); Potters, De Vries, and Van Winden (1998); Sheremeta (2010a, 2010b, 2011); Sheremeta and Zhang (2010); Price and Sheremeta (2011, 2015); Cason, Masters, and Sheremeta (2010, 2011, 2012); Mago, Sheremeta, and Yates (2013); Savikhin and Sheremeta (2013); and Chowdhury, Sheremeta, and…”
Overbidding and Heterogeneous Behavior in Contest Experiments (2013, unknown): “These findings have been replicated by other studies (e.g., Cason et al., 2010; Balafoutas and Sutter, 2012; Price, 2012).”
Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals (2015, unknown): “…task in various subject pools have consistently found that men choose the tournament more often than women (e.g., Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007; Cason, Masters, and Sheremeta, 2010; Healy and Pate, 2011; Balafoutas and piece-rate condition, participants do not compete with others and simply…”
Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck (2012, unknown): “(2013), Vandegrift and Yavas (2009), Cason et al. (2010) and Fletschner et al.”
A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments (2014, background): “Cason et al. (2010) suggest that to attract more entrants into a contest it may be beneficial for a contest designer to use a proportional-prize structure.”
A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes (2016, unknown): “Charness and Gneezy (2012) report that in the IG the gender gap is rather systematic and quite sizable.”
Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions (2010, background): “…in laboratory experiments (Gneezy et al., 2003; Gupta et al., 2005; Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007; Gneezy et al., 2009; Balafoutas and Sutter, 2010; Cason et al., 2010, Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming), we advance this line of research in a new direction by analyzing agents in the process of making…”