Social Reference Points and the Labor Effort (ANJA)

This research project analyzes the effect of a change in the reference point and the endogenous decision to reveal the reference point on the real effort provided in a real effort laboratory experiment. Absolute differences in the performance in a repeated math task are endogenously or exogenously revealed or not revealed at all participants in a group, before participants redo the math task again. This experiment ran in the experimental software "zTree" The dataset contains the following folders: - "Instruktionen": The instructions that where handed out to the experiments' participants, regardless of the treatment that was run.<br> - "zTree": The zTree source code that was used or running the individual sessions.<br> - "Daten": The experimental data of thirteen (13) sessions, held between May 30th and June 21st in 2016.