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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
malnutrition. I find that combining incentives to workers and information to mothers reduces weight-for-age malnutrition by 4.2% in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Ambiguity in Performance Pay: An Online Experiment
Johnson, David; Cooper, David - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014
Many incentive plans are inherently ambiguous, lacking an explicit mapping between performance and compensation. Using an online labor market, Amazon Mechanical Turk, we study the effect of ambiguity on willingness to accept contracts to do a real-effort task as well as completion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960256
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The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220060
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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since the efficiency of performance-related pay is attributable both to its incentive effect and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086299
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Self-selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009
The literature has shown that the overall efficiency of exogenously imposed tournaments is reduced by a high variance in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into different payment schemes is reducing the variability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401083
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635587
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Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667018
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Ambiguity in Performance Pay: An Online Experiment
Cooper, David; Johnson, David - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2013
Abstract: Many incentive plans do not include an explicit mapping between workers’ performance and compensation. Potential employees therefore face both risk and uncertainty when choosing whether to accept an employment contract. Using an online labor market, Amazon Mechanical Turk, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699772
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005112731
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Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employeeemployer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822964