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motivated to share them than people with moderate opinions, resulting in biased distributions of reviews. Providing incentives … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of …, providing relatively high monetary rewards or a pro-social cue as incentives for reviewing reduces this bias. We conclude that …
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"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our …
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This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
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Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e … enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices' for serving different demographic subgroups of clients, influence case … change the composition of their enrollee populations in response to changes in the incentives, increasing the relative …
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relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for the existence and performance of credit markets. In fact, in the … incentives and exacerbates another moral hazard problem in credit markets the choice of inefficient high-risk projects. -- Credit …
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suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the … quality of task execution improves incentives while sustaining a cooperative team spirit. In contrast, making the identity of …
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We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …
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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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