Is it advantageous to be first? Evidence from a TV comedy program

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107009

Real Arai , Ryosuke Okazawa

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Abstract

Using unique data from contests in a Japanese comedy TV show, we estimate the impact of position order on performance evaluations. By exploiting the fact that positions in the contest are randomly determined by lottery, we estimate the effect of position order and find that the first position is favorable in the contest. One interpretation of these results is that the first performance is more likely to receive a default evaluation, which may be advantageous in less competitive contests where there are many winners relative to the number of participants. We present evidence that is consistent with this interpretation.

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第一是否有利？来自电视喜剧节目的证据

我们利用日本喜剧电视节目竞赛中的独特数据，估算了位置顺序对绩效评价的影响。通过利用比赛中的位置是通过抽签随机决定的这一事实，我们估算了位置顺序的影响，并发现第一个位置在比赛中是有利的。对这些结果的一种解释是，第一名的表现更有可能获得默认评价，这在竞争不那么激烈的比赛中可能是有利的，因为相对于参赛人数而言，这种比赛有很多获胜者。我们提出的证据与这一解释一致。

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来源期刊

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.