predicts both errors to be equally detrimental to performance, this prediction fails with a lab experiment. In fact, failing to … resource management and personnel economics and may also contribute to the debate about incentives and organizational …

identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …

in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect … prosocially. Moreover, we show that extrinsic incentives interact with image motivation and are therefore less effective in public … than in private. Together, these results imply that image motivation is crowded out by monetary incentives; which in turn …

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self …

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …

punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects … hypotheses derived from the theory …