We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads … affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in …

investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and explores whether commitment devices and monetary incentives can be used to … promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them … incentives to sleep, and collected data from wearable activity trackers, surveys, and time-use diaries. Our results are …

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …