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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity : Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

incentives. We find that social incentives lead to a 13% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump sum or related to … performance) or strength. The response is strong for subjects with low initial productivity (30%), while high-productivity … increase in private compensation for low productivity subjects reveals that the former are less effective in increasing …

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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important : On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - 2010

To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...

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Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform

Fiva, Jon H. - 2011

Duverger (1954) noted that changes in electoral systems will have two types of effects: mechanical effects, and reactions of political agents in anticipation of these, which he referred to as psychological effects. It is complicated to empirically separate the two effects since these occur...

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Opting-In to Prosocial Incentives

Schwartz, Daniel - 2018

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...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2017

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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The Effect of Incentives of Real Effort : Evidence from the Slider Task

de Araujo, Felipe Augusto - 2015

Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives considered, result in an interior effort choice. The popular...

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Do People Anticipate Loss Aversion?

Imas, Alex - 2015

There is growing interest in the use of loss contracts that offer performance incentives as upfront payments that employees can lose. Standard behavioral models predict a tradeoff in the use of loss contracts: employees will work harder under loss contracts than under gain contracts; but,...

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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Incentives to Work and Performance in the Public Sector

Economides, George - 2015

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...

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Teamwork as a Self-Discipline Device

Fahn, Matthias - 2015

We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. In a situation where individuals have present-biased preferences, any effort that is costly today but rewarded at some later point in time is too low from the perspective of an...

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