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controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
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) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …
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We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
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performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present …
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public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for policy reforms that can improve work incentives, and hence enhance …
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incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a …. However, we show that the board may implement a contract with insufficient incentives to communicate a warning, as refinancing …
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
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We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … identify causal effects. We find strong and robust behavioral effects of changes in financial retirement incentives. A …
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This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
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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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