This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

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 …

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

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 …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …