there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …

in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in … of German academics, I find that performance incentives attract more productive academics, and research quantity …