experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …

in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal … dating experiment, participants can attach "virtual roses" to a proposal to signal special interest in another participant …

determine the effects of hiring workers and revealing more information about their abilities through a field experiment in an … plausible assumptions, the experiment's market-level benefits exceeded its cost, suggesting that some experimental workers had …

platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …

expected overall market share. I also show that “per install” auctions distort the incentives of alternative search engines …

types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to “start small,” so that …

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 …