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Optimal contracting with endogenous project mission
Cassar, Lea - 2016
agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I show that the non-contractibility of effort (asymmetric information …
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313572
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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority
Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470431
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Group contests with complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994514
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793159
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Incentives to motivate
Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2014
distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the intensity of motivation and bears the motivational costs. Second, another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250173
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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509266
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Happiness of economists
Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438344
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404420
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Paid to quit
Dur, Robert A. J.; Schmittdiel, Heiner - 2015
the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405134