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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
incentives are renewed but fade when they are discontinued. Fixed bonuses lead to smaller effects. Both treatments appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517727
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793159
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342223
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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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Does group-based incentive pay lead to higher productivity? : evidence from a complex and interdependent industrial production process
Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022
Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021
behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487017
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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2020
An increasing number of workers participate in online labor markets. In contrast to traditional employment relationships within firms, the interaction between online workers and their employers are short and impersonal, which makes motivating online workers more challenging. We present results...
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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977160
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Psychological incentives, financial incentives, and risk attitudes in tournaments : an artefactual field experiment
Cadsby, Charles Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283941
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …
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