Explicit financial incentives, especially pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives, have been extensively employed in … exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and …

of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests … compensation in the form of variable pay. The selection or sorting explanation is consistent with the low elasticities of pay to …

relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and …

The paper studies how a person's concern for a future career may influence his or her incentives to put in effort or …

What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the … strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and … small firms. We show that while one measure of CEO incentives (the dollar change in CEO wealth per dollar change in firm …

: human capital, learning, and incentives. Considerable empirical work has addressed each of these theories with some success … the ability of researchers to ask even the most basic question, Do Incentives Matter? Second, the available theoretical …

compensation plans on personal productivity. We study an international law firm that moves from high-powered individual incentives … towards incentives for "leadership" activities that contribute to the firm's long run profitability. The effect of this change …

We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …