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Intermittent reinforcement and the persistence of behavior: Experimental evidence
Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285428
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Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506223
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Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611511
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Ambiguous Incentives and the Persistence of Effort : Experimental Evidence
Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater … persistence of effort, while continuous incentives entail exit as soon as payment stops. Randomness increases both earlier and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161033
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Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives : experimental evidence
Cassar, Lea - 2014
Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414760
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Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives: Experimental evidence
Cassar, Lea - 2014
Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282511
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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771729
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Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives: experimental evidence
Cassar, Lea - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941146
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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Benistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005821
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Competitive preferences and status as an incentive: Experimental evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277030