Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance … Tirole (2011) to explore the effect of esteem-based incentives and their interaction with traditional monetary incentives. We … show that esteem-based incentives can indeed lead to a loss of control by generating multiple equilibria, some of which …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

Temporary incentives are offered in anticipation of persistent effects, but these are seldom estimated. We use a … nationwide randomized experiment in the Philippines to estimate effects three years after the withdrawal of two incentives for …

In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and … literature declines with three to fourpercent per year of experience, although researchers and economists with a … mathematicalbackground start with a higher initial stock of knowledge of this type of literature. Businessand government economists …