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feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …
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Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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provision of incentives. Relative price and income effects are shown to be identifiable and strong. A number of empirically …
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...
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experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good. …
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have an impact on attitudes concerning effort and motivation. …
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care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …Do incentives in small organizations differ from those in large ones? This paper uses a representative survey of … compensation managers to shed light on the issues. I find that (i) small establishments rely less on pecuniary incentives, and have …
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Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a...
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Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
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