Showing 1 - 10 of 27
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155475
, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907833
We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244262
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078830
We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349511
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338080
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874633
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181966
agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139879
Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving "tax morale" by encouraging voluntary compliance, creating a culture of compliance, and changing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046662