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Punishment : and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...
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American idol: should it be a singing contest or a popularity contest?
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2007
In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264269
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians? incentives to behave opportunistically increase with...
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Perceived Legitimacy and Motivation Effects of Authority
Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024
Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Bosworth, Steven J.; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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Identity-Driven Cooperation versus Competition
Snower, Dennis; Bosworth, Steven J. - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …
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