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Erratum to: Incentives for creativity

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  • Sanjiv Erat
  • Uri Gneezy

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We investigate whether piece-rate and competitive incentives affect creativity, and if so, how the incentive effect depends on the form of the incentives. We find that while both piece-rate and competitive incentives lead to greater effort relative to a base-line with no incentives, neither type of incentives improve creativity relative to the base-line. More interestingly, we find that competitive incentives are in fact counter-productive in that they reduce creativity relative to base-line condition. In line with previous literature, we find that competitive conditions affect men and women differently: whereas women perform worse under competition than the base-line condition, men do not.
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  • Sanjiv Erat & Uri Gneezy, 2015. "Erratum to: Incentives for creativity," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 18(4), pages 760-761, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:expeco:v:18:y:2015:i:4:p:760-761
    DOI: 10.1007/s10683-015-9446-z
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