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Numeracy task to measure competitiveness for oTree

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Numeracy task to measure competitiveness and (Niederle/Vesterlund 2007, Saccardo et al. 2018) for oTree

oTree version 3.3.8

This oTree app contains a numeracy task to measure competitiveness with 3 stages: 1. piece-rate compensation, 2. tournament compensation, and in the 3rd stage participants can choose what percentage of their payoffs will be based on a piece-rate compensation and the competitive compensation.

Demo


References:

  • Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., & Sutter, M. (2018). Closing the gender gap in competitiveness through priming. Nature communications, 9(1), 1-6.
  • Niederle, M., & Vesterlund, L. (2007). Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much?. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(3), 1067-1101.
  • Saccardo, S., Pietrasz, A., & Gneezy, U. (2018). On the size of the gender difference in competitiveness. Management Science, 64(4), 1541-1554.