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 …

professional referees in 2001-02, thereby changing the financial incentives and monitoring regime faced by these referees. Because …

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives … separate the effects of the monitoring and the financial incentives, we estimate a structural dynamic labour supply model that … to the financial incentives. The estimated elasticity of labour with respect to the incentive is 0.306. Our model …

various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients …