incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …

effects. Our results suggest that accounting for complementarities between inputs and incentives could substantially improve …

The use of incentives to encourage healthy behaviors is increasingly widespread, but we have little evidence about how … margins through an experiment offering incentives to employees of a Fortune 500 company to use their workplace gym. Overall … the likelihood of joining the gym was not strongly affected by the incentive design. Notably, front-loading incentives to …

temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trimester of … the incentives were being paid, and this effect persisted at least 24 months or more after the incentives ended. These … results are consistent with a model where the incentives enable providers to address the fixed costs of overcoming …

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …

Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations … quickly after repeated interventions. Economic incentives produced larger and persistent effects, which induced habit … formation after the final interventions. While each policy produces substantial welfare gains, economic incentives provide …

Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both … to five-week post-treatment period. Comparisons to secondary treatments show that immediate incentives have larger … impacts on sleep than delayed incentives or reminders and feedback alone during the treatment period, but do not have …