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 …

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 …

motivation to perform if awarded publicly, but only prizes crowd-in motivation promoting virtuous attitude. …

. Given recent interest in theories of reciprocity and intrinsic motivation and their implications for effort provision, the … neoclassical prediction seems less obvious today. To better understand the motivation of these workers, I estimate their labor … supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average …