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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’....
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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
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Health club attendance, expectations and self-control
Garon, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014
Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to a reported measure of self-control problems at the time of contract signing. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear...
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Beliefs as a means of self-control? : evidence from a dynamic student survey
Bönisch, Felix; König, Tobias; … - 2024
We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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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. …
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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 …
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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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...
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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