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experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes … fixed number of points that help take the campaign further.We compare low and high levels of such incentives for direct … (where referred contacts refer others). We find that providing high level of incentives results in a statistically …
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outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
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experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in DI policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of … how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We also show that providing work …
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real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is … simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this … to ignore larger changes in incentives. Our results suggest that the effect of a newly introduced tax will be attenuated …
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. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both …
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destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … the incentives, while the responsiveness of treatment stores close to winning a bonus increases in relative performance …
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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 …
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what extent people are sensitive to financial incentives. To distinguish increased mental effort from extra time … risk aversion) are associated with increases in time investments when incentives are introduced, consistent with a rational …
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The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of risk-tolerant individuals into firms using high-intensity incentive contracts. The empirical importance...
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