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How financial incentives and cognitive abilities affect task performance in laboratory settings: An illustration

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Ondrej Rydval
Andreas Ortmann

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Drawing on Gneezy and Rustichini (2000), we illustrate that subjects' cognitive abilities seem at least as important for their performance as do financial incentives they face. Theorists should thus pay more attention to the ability aspect of cognitive production.

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Paper provided by The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economic Institute, Prague in its series CERGE-EI Working Papers with number wp221.

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Keywords: Human capital; Endogenous growth; Total factor productivity; Growth accounting;

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  1. Ondrej Rydval, 2007. "The Interaction between Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Capital: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999)," Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics 2007-039, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek. [Downloadable!]
  2. Gary L. Brase, 2009. "How different types of participant payments alter task performance," Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 4(5), pages 419-428, August. [Downloadable!]
  3. Libor Dušek & Andreas Ortman & Lubomír Lízal, 2005. "Understanding Corruption And Corruptibility Through Experiments," Prague Economic Papers, University of Economics, Prague, vol. 2005(2), pages 147-162. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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