Feedback spillovers across tasks, self-confidence and competitiveness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Banerjee, Ritwik; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Villeval, Marie Claire
• 署名单位: Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Aarhus University; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS); Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS de LYON); Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Universite Jean Monnet; Universite Lyon 2; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.002
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 127-170
• 关键词: feedback; spillovers; Self-confidence; status; Motivated beliefs; experiment

摘要

Does feedback on success in a task increase individuals' beliefs about their chance to succeed in a subsequent, unrelated, task? Does feedback on failure have a symmetric effect? Is the distortion of beliefs, possibly due to motivated beliefs, mistakes in updating or the feeling of having a lucky day, heterogeneous across individuals, in particular according to their status in the society? Conducting an artefactual field experiment in India with participants from different castes, we show that feedback on success in a forced competition in a first task increases winners' self-confidence and competitiveness in the subsequent task. Such feedback spillovers on self-confidence are asymmetric and heterogeneous according to status and more likely for already more confident individuals. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.