How do Incentives affect Creativity?

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Abstract

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and that differences in performance are predominantly related to individual skills.

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Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World
Chair for Empirical and Experimental Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
University of Mainz

Autoren

Katharina Eckartz
Oliver Kirchkamp
Daniel Schunk

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