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 …

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

The use of incentives to encourage healthy behaviors is increasingly widespread, but we have little evidence about how … margins through an experiment offering incentives to employees of a Fortune 500 company to use their workplace gym. Overall … the likelihood of joining the gym was not strongly affected by the incentive design. Notably, front-loading incentives to …

Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …

temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trimester of … the incentives were being paid, and this effect persisted at least 24 months or more after the incentives ended. These … results are consistent with a model where the incentives enable providers to address the fixed costs of overcoming …

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

providing schools with (a) unconditional grants, (b) teacher incentives based on student performance, and (c) both of the above … effects from teacher incentives, and (c) significant positive effects from providing both programs. Most importantly, we find … policy) with improved teacher incentives could substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of public spending on education …