Advocates of teacher incentive programs argue that they can strengthen weak incentives, while opponents argue they lead … to teaching to the test.' We find evidence that existing teacher incentives in Kenya are indeed weak, with teachers … Kenya with incentives based on students' test scores. Students in program schools had higher test scores, significantly so …

How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home … profitable out-of-pocket payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than patients, so moving to …

The role of rewards for maintaining performance incentives in multistage, sequential games of survival is studied. The … on top ranking prizes to maintain performance incentives of survivors at all stages of the game. The extra weight at the …

rigid than pay that is not designed to effect incentives. Some have gone so far as to argue that this may explain … differences in unemployment rates across countries. it is shown that there is no direct link between incentives and wage rigidity …. Many compensation schemes that provide incentives have the reverse effect: That is, they tend to make wages more rigid than …

incentives than is suggested by the wide variation in empirical estimates. First, we conclude that characterizations of saving …

incentives to prevent harm, or not to engage in harmful activities, provided that they have at least the required level of assets …

This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …