comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to … engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in incentives to determine their impact on …

severance policy facilitates the adoption of team incentives and team-based production by making it cost-effective to implement …

return for taking on underserved tasks, and this prioritization increases as incentives power up. Bonuses may additionally be … used when incentives are sufficiently high-powered, but the optimal bonus is often non-monotone in the strength of … incentives. Our results have important implications for the design of worker reward programs on freelancing platforms such as …