ECON. OF MOTIVATION

"An Experimental Study on the Economics of Self-Confidence, Motivation, Gender and Incentives"

Coordinatore	KOC UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: RUMELI FENERI YOLU SARIYER city: ISTANBUL postcode: 34450 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Yaman Cognome: Arkun Email: send email Telefono: +90 212 338 13 13 Fax: +90 212 338 12 05
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Turkey [TR]
Totale costo	75˙000 €
EC contributo	75˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IRG
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-05-31   -   2012-05-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KOC UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: RUMELI FENERI YOLU SARIYER city: ISTANBUL postcode: 34450 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Yaman Cognome: Arkun Email: send email Telefono: +90 212 338 13 13 Fax: +90 212 338 12 05	TR (ISTANBUL)	coordinator	75˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Inducing high effort and performance is an important goal in organizational economics as well as in education. With the recognition that imperfect self-knowledge is prevalent in such contexts, factors such as self-confidence and attitudes toward information have been increasingly incorporated into economic models of incentives in the recent years. This project proposes to study the link between self-confidence, motivation and institutions using experiments. Important self-selection decisions (e.g. type of occupation, career path) and effort decisions are fundamentally based on perceived ability. In addition, factors previously ignored in the incentive literature such as personality traits, gender, and biological factors can be instrumental in the way that individuals respond to incentives. This project proposes to conduct a set of laboratory experiments to analyze the dynamics of self-confidence and the motivation to exert effort under different institutional settings. In conjunction with the data on behavior, the study will also collect data on gender, educational background, risk-aversion, and personality traits, and will employ the recent methodology of neural measurements. Understanding the determinants of motivation, and studying its interactions with the institutional structure as well as factors such as gender are expected to generate important policy recommendations for the workplace as well as for educational settings.'