This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is … merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate precise measures of the economic incentives for … also the fixed costs of work. The results indicate large dis-incentives effects for some groups, especially low paid women …

How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …

of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …

incentives are renewed but fade when they are discontinued. Fixed bonuses lead to smaller effects. Both treatments appear to …

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …