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. …

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 …

distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the intensity of motivation and bears the motivational costs. Second, another …

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I show that the non-contractibility of effort (asymmetric information …