incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort … aggregated to the day. Our data allow us to look within the workday. We find that workers do respond to incentives within the day …

This paper reports on three laboratory experiments designed to investigate the roles of decision costs and rewards on … the accuracy of economic decisions. The experimental vehicle is a purchase decision employing the Becker … second tests its performance under different information regimes and payoff schedules; the third addresses the role of …