. 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 …

the incentives, while the responsiveness of treatment stores close to winning a bonus increases in relative performance …

should be given weak financial incentives. In a multiple-agent setting, this problem can be resolved using promotion … incentives. We empirically examine these predictions using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that workers who … are more reciprocal are significantly more likely toreceive promotion incentives, while there is no such relation for …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

a substantial increase in the number of students aged 21 or above. This is likely to have been driven by post …

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 …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …