An important lesson from the incentive literature is that explicit incentives may elicit dysfunctional and unintended responses, also known as gaming responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in practice because this behaviour is typically hidden from the...

Using data from a large, U.S. federal job training program, we investigate whether enrolment incentives that exogenously vary the ‘shadow prices’ for serving different demographic subgroups of clients influence case workers’ intake decisions. We show that case workers enroll more clients...

This Paper studies the provision of incentives in a large US training organization, which is divided into about 50 independent pools of training agencies. The number and the size of the agencies within each pool vary greatly. Each pool distributes performance incentive awards to the training...

Die öffentlichen Ausgaben für Pflegevorsorge werden, wie aktuelle Projektionen zeigen, bereits bis 2025 kräftig steigen. Unter der Annahme einer gleichbleibenden Betreuungsstruktur ergeben sich jedoch vor allem aufgrund der demographischen Entwicklung insbesondere zwischen 2025 und 2050...