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

This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance … under higher incentives, but appear less susceptible of choking. These results speak to a growing literature on the limits …

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 …

incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …

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 …