The incentive effects of affirmative action in a real-effort tournament

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-31

  Calsamiglia, Caterina ^a,b   Franke, Jörg ^c   Rey Biel, Pedro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Spain)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Experiment; Real effort; Sudoku; Tournament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872179359     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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