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How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
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The goal of this paper is to examine stability in preferences using the Stigler-Becker state-dependent framework. Using a randomized intervention that changes the opportunity sets of individuals we construct a unique panel data from an artefactual field experiment and evaluate whether the change...
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In this note, we present a novel computerized real effort task based on moving sliders across a screen which overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing real effort tasks. The task was first developed and used by us in Gill and Prowse (American Economic Review, forthcoming). We outline the...
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How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing … admit more profitable out-of-pocket private payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than … patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …
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Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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motivated to share them than people with moderate opinions, resulting in biased distributions of reviews. Providing incentives … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of … high monetary rewards or a pro-social cue as incentives for reviewing reduces this bias. We conclude that while voluntary …
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Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked...
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