agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …. -- agency ; motivation ; employment relationships ; behavioral economics …

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

intrinsic motivation for students with low skills, while girls also respond less to rank-based incentives if tested with less …

According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of … generates learning: performing one task increases productivity on related tasks. Intrinsic motivation generates a new multitask … adds a simple incentive. Incentive pay does not "crowd out" intrinsic motivation, but it does rebalance effort away from …

, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …