First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

The Long-Run Effects of Peers on Mental Health

“…Hence, this yields either positive or negative shocks relative to a rank one might expect. Confirming our theoretical prediction, we find that Relative rankings may also affect behavior and outcomes such as consumption, well-being, performance, and effort provision, as in Hopkins and Kornienko (2004), Luttmer (2005), Gill et al (2019), and Kuziemko et al (2014), respectively. rank effects on mental health are driven by negative shocks.…”

Relative performance feedback and the effects of being above average — field experiment and replication

“…This contrasts with existing research from the field, which often introduces relative performance feedback when individuals are already familiar with their tasks and peers (Ashraf, 2022;Barankay, 2012;Blanes i Vidal and Nossol, 2011;Delfgaauw et al, 2013). Second, while university presents a complex working environment with challenging, high-stakes tasks, much of the previous literature relies on real effort tasks in the lab (Azmat and Iriberri, 2016;Charness, Masclet and Villeval, 2014;Eriksson, Poulsen and Villeval, 2009;Gill et al, 2019;Kuhnen and Tymula, 2012) or on rather repetitive tasks in the field (Ashraf, 2022;Bandiera, Barankay and Rasul, 2013;Barankay, 2012;Blanes i Vidal and Nossol, 2011;Delfgaauw et al, 2013).…”

How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms Behind Salient Ranks

“…position in the education and industry sectors may di↵er widely. For instance, Gill, Kissová, Lee, and Prowse (2019) show that workers would exhibit the most e↵ort when being ranked in the last place on Key Performance Indicators (KPI), while Murphy and Weinhardt (2020) and our paper both show that low-ranked individuals in schools are significantly disincentived for learning in the later period.…”