Replication data for: The Hidden Costs of Control

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Armin Falk; Michael Kosfeld

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Project Citation: 

Falk, Armin, and Kosfeld, Michael. Replication data for: The Hidden Costs of Control. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116246V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principalagent game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance requirement before the agent chooses a productive activity. Our results show that control entails hidden costs since most agents reduce their performance as a response to the principal’s controlling decision. Overall, the effect of control on the principal’s payoff is nonmonotonic. When asked for their emotional perception of control, most agents who react negatively say that they perceive the controlling decision as a signal of distrust and a limitation of their choice autonomy. (JEL D82, Z13)

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification


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