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Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009

We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic...

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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: evidence from a randomized trial

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

extrinsic rewards may be crowding out intrinsic motivation. Evidence by sites' funding source, which led to implementation …

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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia

Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation

Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

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Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter; Montalvo, Jose G.; Pettersson, Gunilla; … - 2010

intrinsic motivation - measured as the importance attached to helping the poor - as well as those who have grown up in a rural …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …. These results suggest that in addition to economic incentives, intrinsic motivation and rural origin play an important role …

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The link between the intrinsic motivation to comply and compliance behavior: A critical appraisal of existing evidence

Halla, Martin - 2010

the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal link between the intrinsic motivation to comply and actual …

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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2008

Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Bosworth, Steven J.; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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