managers in private schools by affecting the market incentives faced by such schools. We also develop a model of school and …

scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … pay is much more cost effective than a general pay rise. -- incentives ; public sector ; teams ; performance ; personnel …

A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems …

respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …

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 …

incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort … aggregated to the day. Our data allow us to look within the workday. We find that workers do respond to incentives within the day …

We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information … incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic incentives significantly increases turnout and blood units collected … come to a drive but are ineligible to donate when incentives are offered. Further evidence from a small-scale field …

altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … effect of monetary incentives declines with reputational concerns, supporting a prediction that extrinsic incentives can …