We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in … higher efficiency levels than students. Moreover, we find that, for CEOs as well as for students, incentives based on … explicit threats to penalize shirking backfire by inducing less trustworthy behavior—giving rise to hidden costs of incentives …

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …

}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting …, the impact of ex post incentives on informal contracts between principals and agents in bargaining environments in which …

effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining … the relative importance of intentions and incentives in producing non-cooperative behavior in a personal exchange …