literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents’ risk preferences, on … their recording behaviour. In the experiment, run shortly before the consumers start to fill in the diary, the consumers …

In survey research, a consensus has grown regarding the effectiveness of incentives encouraging survey participation … present comprehensive information concerning the effects of incentives on response rates and nonresponse bias across large … value of the incentive; cash incentives affected response propensity more strongly than lottery tickets do; and prepaid …

Economists believe in (monetary) incentives. However, in the specialized area of prosocial behaviours, (monetary …) incentives could backfire because extrinsic motivation might crowd out intrinsic motivation. Moreover, national differences in … the perception of incentives should also be considered, taking the cultural background of individuals into account. In …

incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …

incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance – in particular when the incentive … plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …

multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field … experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …