an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …