crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

Legal rules and regulations are routinely rationalized by appeal to the incentives they create. This Note examines an … important but misunderstood fact about incentives — namely, that they often “crowd out” the natural motivations that citizens … towards others. The “crowding out effect” of incentives has traditionally been viewed as problematic because of cases where it …

. Conventional economic theory would suggest that offering incentives for good behavior is likely to yield more of it, while … penalties are likely to deter bad behavior. But behavioral economics scholarship prompts a second look at how incentives and … by which imposing an extrinsic reward or penalty may reduce individuals' “intrinsic” motivation for good behavior (Frey …

A stumbling block to the widespread use of financial incentives for conservation on private lands is the concern that … compensation will undermine motivation to act voluntarily and compromise environmental values. This paper argues that this concern … has been overstated. First, a substantial number of landowners lack ex ante motivation to engage voluntarily in …