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give_me_challenge

Here you can find the data and replication code for my "Give Me a Challenge or Give Me a Raise" paper, upcoming in Experimental Economics.

  • Folder "ztree" contains the treatment file for ztree

  • Folder "raw_data" contains the .xls files generated by zTree, the files are in a format YYMMDD_HHMM.xls

  • Folder "data" contains the processed data used for analysis

    • "data_demog.csv" contains the subject-level data from the demographic survey, it has the following variables:

      • session - session date and time in the format "M_DD_YY_HH"
      • id - unique subject id (the key variable)
      • age - age in years
      • gender - subjects' gender
      • race - subjects' racial or ethnic background
      • marital - subject's marital status
      • major - subject's major
      • gpa - Grade Point Average
      • year - year in program (Freshman, Sophomore, etc.)
      • hh_size - the number of people in a subject's household
      • hh_inc - the total income of a subject's household
      • par_inc - the total income of a subject's parents
    • "data_effort.csv" contains the subject-by-round data (keyed by "id" and "round") from the experimental task, it has the following variables:

      • session - session date and time in the format "M_DD_YY_HH"
      • id - unique subject id
      • round - round of the effort task
      • effort - chosen effort level between 0 and 1
      • payoff - project's monetary outcome
      • treatment - description of the treatment given by the values of the treatment variables, in a format "difficulty-wage-bonus-cost"
      • treatment_id - a unique id for a treatment
      • theta, w, z, k - the values of the treatment variables: difficulty, wage, bonus, and cost, respectively
      • good - the monetary outcome in case of success
      • bad - the monetary outcome in case of failure
      • succ, fail - indicators for whether the project was successful or not
  • Folder "r_code" contains the R code used to analyze the data

    • "graph_settings.R" is an auxiliary code that sets up how graphs look like
    • "master_reduced_form.R" performs the reduced-form analysis (Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of the paper)
    • "master_structural.R" performs the structural analysis (Section 5.3)

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