When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … regime shift by withdrawing monetary rewards after the same unknown number of periods. In such an ambiguous environment, we … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater …

that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …