experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …

Explicit financial incentives, especially pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives, have been extensively employed in … exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …

interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … findings emerge. First, there are hidden benefits of conditional incentives that would have gone undetected had we maintained a …

large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …. We find that only higher-valued economic incentives generated more donations, increasing in the value of the incentive …. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety and usability of the donated blood. We discuss the …

Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In …

experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in DI policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of … how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We further show that providing work …