Replication data for: I Take Care of My Own: A Field Study on How Leadership Handles Conflict between Individual and Collective Incentives

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Romain Gauriot; Lionel Page

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Project Citation:

Gauriot, Romain, and Page, Lionel. Replication data for: I Take Care of My Own: A Field Study on How Leadership Handles Conflict between Individual and Collective Incentives. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113365V1

Project Description

Summary: In most collective actions, individuals' incentives are not perfectly aligned with the goals of the group/team they are part of. We investigate how individual specific incentives affect both individuals and team leaders' strategies in a natural setting. We use a discontinuity in individual rewards in batsmen scoring in cricket to identify the causal effect of such incentives on behavior. We find that batsmen react to the presence of individual-specific incentives by adopting strategies that may be suboptimal at the team level. More surprisingly, we also find that team captains react to these individual incentives by adopting suboptimal strategies at the team level, which may bring large benefits to the individual players. These results suggest a complex interplay of individual and team incentives which we conjecture may arise in repeated team interactions.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Cricket; McCrary test; Regression Discontinuity

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      L83 Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
      Z21 Sports Economics: Industry Studies
      Z22 Sports Economics: Labor Issues

Geographic Coverage: Cricket test match, One Day Internationals test match

Time Period(s): 1/1/1971 – 12/31/2014 (1971-2014)

Data Type(s): observational data

Methodology

Data Source: https://www.espncricinfo.com/

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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