incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation. About 14,000 Hamp;R Block clients, across 60 offices in …

incentives significantly improve speed, especially in the week before the deadline. Cash payments do not crowd out intrinsic … motivation: after the cash treatment ends, referees who received cash incentives are no slower than those in the four …-week deadline group. Third, social incentives have smaller but significant effects on review times and are especially effective …

, we find substantial incentive effects from both financial and non-financial incentives on test scores. Second, we find … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay. Since the rewards to educational investment …

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

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 …

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in …

Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations … quickly after repeated interventions. Economic incentives produced larger and persistent effects, which induced habit … formation after the final interventions. While each policy produces substantial welfare gains, economic incentives provide …