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Nudging the electorate : what works and why?
Kölle, Felix; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele; Starmer, Chris - 2017
Policymakers are increasingly interested these days in how they can achieve desired outcomes using 'nudges' - low-cost and non-obtrusive interventions which rely on psychological mechanisms, rather than high-powered economic incentives, to influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the...
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Low-cost interventions to promote voter registration : what works and why?
Kölle, Felix; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele; Starmer, Chris - 2017
We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different interventions affect voter registration rates. In a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by Oxford City Council to unregistered student voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770644
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Employee incentives : bonuses or penalties? : penalty contracts lead to higher productivity than performance-based bonuses, but at the cost of employer/staff relations
Nosenzo, Daniele - 2016
incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach a performance target, rather than as additional rewards that can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433993
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Discretionary sanctions and rewards in the repeated inspection game
Nosenzo, Daniele; Offerman, Theo; Sefton, Martin; Veen, … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 2, pp. 502-517
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Promoting cooperation : the distribution of reward and punishment power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578208
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Promoting Cooperation: the Distribution of Reward and Punishment Power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2012
monitors’). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568441
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Discretionary Sanctions and Reward in the Repeated Inspection Game
Nosenzo, Daniele; Offerman, Theo; Sefton, Martin; Veen, … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2012
employee after she has inspected the employee. We find that rewards or sanctions can both discourage shirking, and have similar … and the efficiency gains accrue to employers. In games allowing rewards employers actively reward employees for working … and the efficiency gains are shared more equitably. A treatment where employers can combine sanctions and rewards leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568444
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Discretionary Sanctions and Rewards in the Repeated Inspection Game
Nosenzo, Daniele; Offerman, Theo; Sefton, Martin; Veen, … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2014
/or rewards following an inspection, we find that both instruments are equally effective in reducing shirking and increasing joint … earnings. When employers have discretion to reward and/or sanction independently of whether they inspect we find that rewards … are more effective than sanctions. In treatments where employers can combine sanctions and rewards employers rely mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781900
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Discretionary sanctions and rewards in the repeated inspection game
Nosenzo, Daniele; Offerman, Theo; Sefton, Martin; van … - 2012
employee after she has inspected the employee. We find that rewards or sanctions can both discourage shirking, and have similar … and the efficiency gains accrue to employers. In games allowing rewards employers actively reward employees for working … and the efficiency gains are shared more equitably. A treatment where employers can combine sanctions and rewards leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392419
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Promoting cooperation: The distribution of reward and punishment power
Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
monitors'). We review the literature on the relative merits of punishment and rewards when the distribution of incentive power …Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly … evidence showing how concentrating reward/punishment power in one group member affects cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392426