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We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned...
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Apparently judges’ decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select...
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Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of donors characterized by different degrees of intrinsic motivation … intrinsic motivation, who received a reimbursement, reduce their donations more than four times as much as equally motivated …
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Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning … crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under … in both parts of Germany. Surprisingly, intrinsic motivation in the absence of control is very similar among East and …
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, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of donors characterized by different degrees of intrinsic motivation … intrinsic motivation, who received a reimbursement, reduce their donations more than four times as much as equally motivated …
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Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatalities worldwide. There have been a range of legislative and policy interventions that aim to address this. Bar closing hours is one policy with clear implications for drink driving. Existing evidence, largely drawn from one-off...
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activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features … motivation may not be a concern in many contexts, the substitution of one prosocial activity for another or shifts in activities …
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