GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MOTIVATIONAL CROWDING OUT OF WORK PERFORMANCE

• DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12718
• Publication Date: 2018-09-19T13:34:37Z
• Authors: Volker Benndorf; Holger A. Rau; Christian Sölch
• Keywords: Crowding out; Crowding

This paper shows that prior financial incentives induce a crowding‐out effect when are discontinued. In our real‐effort experiment workers receive piece rate before monetary substituted by one‐time payment. this case, workers' performance significantly drops receiving the The is driven fraction of men who reduce effort substantially, whereas women constantly perform well. We find motivational disappears do not have experience rate. series control treatments, we discard several alternative explanations besides crowding out. ( JEL C91, J16, M54)