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A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This … article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the … applications of our theoretical work: envy can explain why a lower-level worker is awarded stock options, why incentive pay is …
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This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on …
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-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …
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randomized experiment. Half of the students who responded to an Internet questionnaire were given factual information on loan …
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In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
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conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …
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the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …
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verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …
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