risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between … incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically on the availability of information about peers’ strategies and … outcomes. Indeed, we find that when no peer information is available, relative rewards schemes are associated with …

) receive information about past performance, or (d) receive no message. Expectations increase math scores by 0.19σ, with …. Information provision has comparably large effects (0.16σ), particularly in schools with low parental literacy. However, pairing …

pay ; tournament ; piece rate ; peer effects ; information ; feedback ; evaluation ; experiment …This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through …

We propose a deterrence mechanism that utilizes insider information contained in criminal networks. Under this … experiment confirms the mechanism's deterrence effect, but also uncovers little sensitivity of the mechanism to network structure …