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SUBMITTER: Murad Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6417700 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murad Zahra Z Stavropoulou Charitini C Cookson Graham G
PloS one 20190314 3
This paper investigates the behavioural effects of competitive, social-value and social-image incentives on men's and women's allocation of effort in a multi-task environment. Specifically, using two real-effort laboratory tasks, we investigate how competitive prizes, social-value generation and public awards affect effort allocation decisions between the tasks. We find that all three types of incentives significantly focus effort allocation towards the task they are applied in, but the effect v ...[more]