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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team … identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …
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In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...
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Recent behavioral models argue in favor of avoidance of instrumental information. We explore the role of information avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance of instrumental information exist, studying...
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …
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Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … minor role. Incentives improve performance also in an additional sample of presumably less motivated workers. However …
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incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a series of field experiments involving more than 5,000 participants, we … investigate how incentives alter behavior in teams working on such a task. We document a positive effect of bonus incentives on … those seen with bonus incentives, rendering it as a likely mediator of incentive effects. …
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literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …
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Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: "choice architecture" and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of "nudging" people into a socially desired direction without...
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