The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …

intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as …. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements …

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 …

. 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 …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking …

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 …This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others - as a driver …

. We conclude that soldiers returning from combat do not represent a special threat to public safety …