of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …

"), 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 … incentives and sending a message about society's values, and hence about the norms that different behaviors are likely to …

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. …

-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … where the effects of incentives are determined by the strength of son preference, the cost of children, and the cost of sex …-selection, relative to the size of incentives. Second, I create a woman-year panel dataset from retrospective birth histories and use …

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

conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare … recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work … decisions of low-income single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to leave the …

once order effects are excluded, and once salient and dominant incentives are provided. This holds true for both choice and …