the agent's motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides … incentives as well as the puzzling incompleteness of many economic contracts. …

, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent, spouse, friend, teacher, manager, etc.) have incentives to … - as stressed by psychologists - in that they undermine intrinsic motivation. As a result, they may be only weak … motivation, while offers of help may create a dependence. More generally, we identify when the hidden costs of rewards are a myth …

), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and … social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …

The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets … studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in … different EC countries are forced to synchronize minimum retirement ages, which are lower now for females than males in a number …

This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … social welfare. Benefits depend on retirement age and on the (reported) health status. We determine first- and second …-best optimal benefit levels and retirement ages and focus on the distortions which may be induced in the individuals’ retirement …

on the key distinction between those in forced early retirement and those who retire early by individual choice. We start … by estimating a retirement probit model for older workers in Belgium. Based on these estimates, we then perform micro … respect to the time of retirement. We explore two scenarios, one where the entire population is subjected to the actuarial …

of workforce in 34 industrial sectors drawn from the decennial censuses from 1951 to 1981. It finds that early retirement … is influenced primarily by economic factors, although health becomes important in 1981. By showing that retirement and … early retirement behavior are influenced by different factors, and that the importance of these factors has changed over …