Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives – where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization … – can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the … effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions to participate or opt-in to the incentivized activity in the first place …

We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our …. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors with strong electoral support are less likely to experiment with … striving for reelection. The importance of electoral incentives is robust to controlling for governor ideology, voter …

second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to disentangle the incentives for these two types of effort. The contract …

their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for policy reforms that can improve work incentives, and hence enhance …