Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi …-nation of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points in …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …

be influenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we …

and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives … competition between two platforms to study private and social incentives to share information. Sharing information can be welfare … price regulation over information sharing like the one applied in the EU jurisdiction increases the incentives of big …

-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist-who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties-and consumer surplus …