multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field … experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a good allocation of effort across various …

adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a “good” allocation of effort across …

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …

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 …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …