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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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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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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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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?
Dur, Robert - 2009
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
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Relative Performance Feedback to Teams
Gjedrem, William - 2018
Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects...
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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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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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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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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...
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