Research Article

Competition, Income Distribution, and the Middle Class: An Experimental Study

Table 3

Contest versus random endowment.

Prize scheme Quorum
Majority Unanimity

0.218 0.071
Symmetric (0.057) (0.035)

0.079 0.131
Right-skewed (0.029) (0.031)

Note. First row: mean difference of between contest and random. Second row: standard errors. Third row: significance level of a one-tailed -test.