TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions
AU - Fallucchi, Francesco
AU - Nosenzo, Daniele
AU - Reuben, Ernesto
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Georgia Michailidou for her inputs in the early stages of the project. We are grateful to Sabrina Bravaccini, Dimitri Dubois, and Marc Willinger for their collaboration in collecting the data on professional athletes. We also thank David Gill, Luise Görges, two anonymous referees, and conference participants at ESA-Dijon and University of East Anglia for their helpful comments. This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process may not be reflected in this document.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants’ agreement with the statement “Competition brings the best out of me”, predicts individuals’ willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability, beliefs, and risk attitude (Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007). We further validate the explanatory power of our survey item outside of the laboratory, by comparing responses across two samples with predicted differences in their preference for competition: professional athletes and non-athletes. As predicted, we find that athletes score higher on the item than non-athletes.
AB - We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants’ agreement with the statement “Competition brings the best out of me”, predicts individuals’ willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability, beliefs, and risk attitude (Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007). We further validate the explanatory power of our survey item outside of the laboratory, by comparing responses across two samples with predicted differences in their preference for competition: professional athletes and non-athletes. As predicted, we find that athletes score higher on the item than non-athletes.
KW - Competition
KW - Experiment validation
KW - Survey question
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.028
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089425253
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 178
SP - 402
EP - 423
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -