Short run reference points and long run performance. (No) Evidence from running data

Adriaan Soetevent

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022, vol. 89, issue C

Abstract: What motivates runners to bunch at round finishing times? Is it merely the immediate gratification that round time finishing brings, or do athletes set single-stage round time subgoals to help them attain multiple-stage end goals related to their future performance? To examine this question, I construct a new panel data set that covers all finishing times of 7000 major running events of different distances organized in the Netherlands between 1996–2016.

Keywords: Goal setting; Bunching; Reference points; Running (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2021.102471

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