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 …

avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance …

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 …

influence agents incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show … substitutes. I solve for the optimal monetary incentives that complement the peer effects and show that the principal prefers …

How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find …