economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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 …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …

incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers …

-tier rents for creating incentives on tier 1. If workers are heterogeneous, the firm strictly improves the selection quality of a …

bonus is substantial. In this case, however, the data suggests that tournament competition crowds out voluntary cooperation …

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

"descriptive norm") what they really value (the "prescriptive norm"), thus presenting her with a tradeoff between incentives and …

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over … incentive schemes, taking into account the goals of the charity and donor preferences. Two of these optimal incentives were … policy to evaluate effectiveness. The best-guess incentives in our initial field experiment turned out to be ineffective at …