in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into … substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is efficiency …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …

both to sort workers across jobs and to provide them with incentives. However, the Peter Principle states that employees …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect …

in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into … substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is efficiency …

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …-effort experiment in which individuals had to decide when to exit the situation: a continuous reinforcement schedule (all periods paid …

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort … extrinsic incentives by the availability of non-monetary incentives …

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort … extrinsic incentives by the availability of non-monetary incentives. …

We explore the effects of competitive incentives and of their time horizon on the evolution of both asset prices and …

When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … influence participation and effort. We contrast three incentive schemes in a real-effort experiment in which individuals decide … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater …