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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...
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predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of … compensation system and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is not affected by the design of monetary compensation, but by …
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motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …
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as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a promotion affects both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation significantly …, though in two different ways: An expected promotion increases extrinsic motivation whereas intrinsic motivation is highest … subsequent to a realized promotion. The relationship between extrinsic motivation and expected promotions implies that promotions …
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motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The …
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There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...
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-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …
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the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …
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a model in which HRM decisions affect employees' self-images and thereby their motivation. We show that in the absence …
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