Original paper
Compete with others? No, thanks. With myself? Yes, please!
Abstract
We study the willingness to compete against self and others in an experiment with over 650 participants, using a modified version of the Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) design. We show that introducing a possibility to self-compete, in addition to the standard other-competition option, increases the proportion of participants who compete by more than 60 percent, indicating that self-competition attracts many of those who would otherwise have...
Paper Details
Title
Compete with others? No, thanks. With myself? Yes, please!
Published Date
Feb 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
187
Pages
108878 - 108878
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