Social undermining as a dark side of symbolic awards: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design☆
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An earlier version of this paper circulated under the name "Symbolic Awards at Work: A Regression Discontinuity Design.” We are grateful to Evan Polman (the associate editor) and three anonymous referees for their insightful comments. We are deeply indebted to Gordon Dahl and Lorenz Goette for their support and guidance. We would also like to thank Ach Adhvaryu, Anik Ashraf, Pranshant Bharadwaj, Leonardo Burtstyn, Julie Cullen, Jeffrey Clemens, Robert Dur, Jana Gallus, Susanne Neckermann, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Sally Sadoff, Marta Serra-Garcia, participants at SOLE, EMCON, Warwick PhD conference, ACLEC, UCSD seminars, and NUS seminars for their helpful comments. Finally, we thank Manman Cai, Bing Ling, Jinyang Ren, and students in the Yunzhouxing group for their help with the experiment in Study 2. All errors are our own.