TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fallucchi, Francesco
AU  - Nosenzo, Daniele
AU  - Reuben, Ernesto
        TI  - Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12867
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12867
        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  - survey question
KW  - experiment validation
        ER  -