Replication data for: The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ernst Fehr; Holger Herz; Tom Wilkening
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Project Citation:
Fehr, Ernst, Herz, Holger, and Wilkening, Tom. Replication data for: The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112646V1
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Summary:
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Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic
life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and
consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation
and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain authority even when its
delegation is in their material interest—suggesting that authority has
nonpecuniary consequences for utility. Authority also leads to overprovision of effort by the controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates underprovide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary. Authority thus has important motivational consequences that exacerbate the inefficiencies arising from suboptimal delegation choices.
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JEL Classification:
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C92 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
D23 Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
C92 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
D23 Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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