@article{25b2837ac4b541a8b5c2c29480e042dc,
title = "Team competition when there is within team inequality",
abstract = "In experiments, contributions to a team public good increase when the team competes with another team for a prize. In our experiment, this insight generalises to internally unequal teams. Indeed, in some cases the boost to public goods contributions is bigger with unequal teams than equal ones. We also find that the boost to contributions is most significant among the {\textquoteleft}rich{\textquoteright} in the team. Hence, competition not only promotes efficiency, it also reduces inequality in our experiment.",
keywords = "Experiment, Inequality, Productivity, Public goods, Team competition, Within group",
author = "{Hargreaves Heap}, Shaun and Abhijit Ramalingam and Stoddard, {Brock V.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank editor Tatsuyoshi Saijo, two anonymous reviewers, Loukas Balafoutas, Jeff Carpenter, Thorsten Chmura, Astrid Hopfensitz, Wieland M?ller, Lionel Page, Daniela Puzzello, Dmitry Ryvkin, Jason Shachat, Roman Sheremeta, Axel Sonntag, John Spraggon, Jean-Robert Tyran, Boris van Leeuwen, Neslihan Uler, Marie Claire Villeval, Daniel Zizzo, and seminar participants at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Nottingham University Business School, Vienna Center for Experimental Economics at the University of Vienna, Durham/Newcastle BENC, TSE and IAST Toulouse, the 2017 CCP Annual Conference in Norwich, EWEBE 2017 in Bologna, the Conflict Workshop at UEA, the 2016 Eastern ARC Meeting on New Directions in Intergroup Conflict and Contact at UEA, IMEBESS 2016 in Rome, and the 2015 ESA North American Meetings in Dallas for helpful advice, comments and suggestions. Funding from the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia, the Department of Political Economy at King's College London and the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (Grant reference ES/K002201/1) is gratefully acknowledged. Funding Information: The authors thank editor Tatsuyoshi Saijo, two anonymous reviewers, Loukas Balafoutas, Jeff Carpenter, Thorsten Chmura, Astrid Hopfensitz, Wieland M{\"u}ller, Lionel Page, Daniela Puzzello, Dmitry Ryvkin, Jason Shachat, Roman Sheremeta, Axel Sonntag, John Spraggon, Jean-Robert Tyran, Boris van Leeuwen, Neslihan Uler, Marie Claire Villeval, Daniel Zizzo, and seminar participants at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Nottingham University Business School, Vienna Center for Experimental Economics at the University of Vienna, Durham/Newcastle BENC, TSE and IAST Toulouse, the 2017 CCP Annual Conference in Norwich, EWEBE 2017 in Bologna, the Conflict Workshop at UEA, the 2016 Eastern ARC Meeting on New Directions in Intergroup Conflict and Contact at UEA, IMEBESS 2016 in Rome, and the 2015 ESA North American Meetings in Dallas for helpful advice, comments and suggestions. Funding from the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia, the Department of Political Economy at King's College London and the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (Grant reference ES/K002201/1) is gratefully acknowledged. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/j.socec.2020.101614",
language = "English",
volume = "90",
journal = "Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics",
issn = "2214-8043",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
}