This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay … next year. Our results show consistent evidence that teachers do not respond to the incentives they face under this program …

school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …

that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … framed as losses. Our findings imply that in the absence of immediate incentives, many students put forth low effort on … students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First …

economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative …

incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold increase in participation compared to non-pecuniary incentives alone … organization consisting of a combination of pecuniary and altruistic incentives associated with the mission of the organization …

possible explanations. Two are explored. The most traditional is that the prospect of promotion provides incentives which …

applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This allows the first experimental estimates of (i) the role of … financial incentives in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (ii) the elasticity of the labor supply … motivation; higher wage offers also increased acceptance rates, implying a labor supply elasticity of around 2 and some degree of …