National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but … public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

, and local development objectives of technology license offices. Royalty incentives work both by raising faculty effort and … sorting scientists across universities. The effect of incentives works primarily by increasing the quality (value) rather than …

performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in the Dutch market for long-term care. We find that increasing the … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …

validity of results obtained in lab experiments or from sports data. To address these concerns we conducted a field experiment …

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for … extrinsic incentives. The model also allows us to identify settings that are conducive to multiple social norms of behaviour … sponsors, including the level and confidentiality or publicity of incentives. Sponsor competition may cause rewards to bid down …

), 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 … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …

in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …

. In this paper we study semi-altruistic firms’ incentives to invest in quality and cost-reducing effort when facing …-efficiency, whereas the effects on quality and price are ambiguous. If altruism is high (low), profit-constrained firms offer higher … constraints may improve welfare and be a complement or substitute to a higher regulated price, depending on the degree of altruism. …

elasticity of demand faced by hospitals increased post-reform, giving hospitals potentially large incentives to improve their … quality of care and nd suggestive evidence that hospitals responded strongly to the enhanced incentives due to increased …