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Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014

We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20–80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...

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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament

O’Rourke, Margaret - 2015

This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...

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Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence

Blasco, Andrea - 2016

We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...

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The Peter Principle : Promotions and Declining Productivity

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2015

particular kind of motive (e.g., desire for intellectual challenge vs. pay). We also find that intrinsic and extrinsic motives … individual effort, but also its quality. Overall, intrinsic motives, particularly the desire for intellectual challenge, appear … to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …

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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2009

Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a...

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Unintended Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance : Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms

Visaria, Sujata - 2016

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the scheme was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students with high baseline attendance, the incentive had no...

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The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes

Hastings, Justine S. - 2012

school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …

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Motivated Errors

Exley, Christine L - 2019

In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...

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