care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …

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 …

supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …

We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce … presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence is negatively related to political survival, but that the effect is … moderated by the size of the winning coalition. As military and economic competence are negatively correlated, the opposite …