agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …

students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …

growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student … than their non-science counterparts. Students with relatively weaker academic preparation are significantly more likely to … leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more …

motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …