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

Table 6

Effort and distribution proposal by treatment.

Prize; scheme	Subject’s rank
	Effort
	Simple majority voting
Symmetric	4.39	3.14	1.63	0.59	0.51	0.41
	(0.22)	(0.20)	(0.32)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.03)
Right-skewed	4.26	2.38	0.85	0.40	0.10	0.10
	(0.17)	(0.20)	(0.30)	(0.04)	(0.02)	(0.02)
Unanimity rule
Symmetric	3.92	2.55	1.16	0.48	0.49	0.47
	(0.21)	(0.21)	(0.31)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)
Right-skewed	4.24	2.80	1.72	0.43	0.41	0.43
	(0.26)	(0.22)	(0.35)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)

Note. The figures give the subjects’ mean scores in the intelligence test (per round) and the mean of the distribution parameter typed in after the chat phase. Standard errors are in parentheses.