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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015 - June 2015, revised September 2015
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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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2017
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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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At … work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods …
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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...
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Incentives, search engines, and the elicitation of subjective beliefs : evidence from representative online survey experiments
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
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The influence of an up-front experiment on respondents’ recording behaviour in payment diaries : evidence from Germany
Sieber, Susann; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
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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Choice architecture and incentives increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions and test demand
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2021
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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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
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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More money or better procedures? : evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program
Chlond, Bettina; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin - 2022
We contribute to the literature on how program design affects program performance among vulnerable groups by studying the effects of varying the subsidy level and program procedures in an energy efficiency assistance program targeting low-income households in Germany. Eligible households...
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Brazilian maritime GDP, social, economic and environmental motivations for its measurement and monitoring
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Hillebrand, Giovanni Roriz Lyra - 2022
The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of …
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