that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …

that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students’ math, reading …

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 …

social preferences. In a single-period setting, only moderately altruistic leaders use praise as a motivation tool, whereas …