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We evaluate policies to increase prosocial behavior using a field experiment with 1,500 referees at the Journal of …
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creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought …
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For whom and under what conditions do incentives work in education? In the context of a summer reading program called Project READS, we test whether responsiveness to incentives is positively or negatively related to the student's baseline level of motivation to read. Elementary school students...
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We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...
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We survey the Personnel Economics literature, focusing on how firms establish, maintain, and end employment relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and empirical work about incentive systems. Some of the...
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evidence of these concerns in a nationwide field experiment among 294 car dealers. Dealers randomized into loss-framed (but …
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We use a field experiment with 3,176 patients at 122 tuberculosis treatment clinics in India to test whether peer …
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contract awarding, exploiting an experiment run by a firm which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring suppliers' past …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public …
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We conduct a field experiment with 1,300 participants in India to measure whether individuals save more when …
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