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 experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability-the implicit or explicit expectation of … incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability with incentives makes causal attributions of any effects found … problematic. We separate accountability and incentives, and find different effects. Accountability is found to reduce preference …

We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After … contract), because this game better sustains (implicit) relational incentives backed by either reputational or reciprocity …