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

Table 5

Predicted effort by prize scheme.

Prize; scheme	Mean	Coefficient; of variation	Skewness	Effort
				Mean	Variation
1	0	1	0	22.9	.6
2	1	1	0	45.9	.6
3	0	0	0	11.9	.6
4	1	0	0	22.5	.6
5	0	1	1	13.6	1.0
6	1	1	1	27.2	1.0
7	0	0	1	6.6	1.0
8	1	0	1	13.1	1.0

Note. 0 = low/symmetric, 1 = high/right-skewed. Effort predictions according to Table 4.