How Do Incentives Affect Creativity?
23 Pages Posted: 14 Jan 2013
Date Written: December 12, 2012
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.
Keywords: creativity, incentives, real effort task, experimental economics
JEL Classification: C910, J330
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Eckartz, Katharina and Kirchkamp, Oliver and Schunk, Daniel, How Do Incentives Affect Creativity? (December 12, 2012). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4049, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2198760 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2198760
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