Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions

Ernesto Reuben, Francesco Fallucchi and Daniele Nosenzo

No 20190034, Working Papers from New York University Abu Dhabi, Department of Social Science

Abstract: We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants’ agreement with the statement “Competition brings the best out of me”, predicts individuals’ willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability, beliefs, and risk attitude (Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007). We further validate the explanatory power of our survey item outside of the laboratory, by comparing responses across two samples with predicted differences in their preference for competition: professional athletes and non-athletes. As predicted, we find that athletes score higher on the item than non-athletes.

Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2019-12, Revised 2019-12
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