Many provisions of the Social Security Program distort an individual's labor supply incentives. In particular, the …

This paper examines the characteristics of and interactions among measures to effect saving and investment incentives … ("S-I incentives")in the context of an income tax system that is inadequately indexed for inflation. Examples are … incentives are classified into "consumption tax" and "direct grant" types, and it is shown that these differ in their influence …

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the … virtues: its ability to solve the problems of selection, incentives, and information gathering and aggregation which are the …

educator performance metrics and measures of student achievement. To mitigate incentives for coaching, incentive systems should … information about student achievement because they create no incentives for educators to take hidden actions that contaminate …

incentives and limits of hard information verifiability. Using unique data where loans are based on hard information, and loan …

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns … crowding out of prosocial behavior by extrinsic incentives. We also identify settings that are conducive to multiple social …

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 …