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improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of …: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their … treatment. The subjects' decisions result in payments to real patients. By giving either private or public feedback we are able …
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effects of providing feedback information on average electricity consumption. Econometric analyses are applied using a cross … feedback on their electric-ity consumption together with information about electricity saving measures (pi-lot group). The … remaining households served as a control group. To evaluate the impact of feedback information, we econometrically estimated …
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receiving negative feedback. The gender differential is stronger in high stakes matches. On the other hand, when players are …
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We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...
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and after the moment that experts received different kinds of feedback on their behavior. We have data for 21 experts … program, and we report the forecast accuracy over these 12 months. In September 2007 these experts were given feedback on …
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worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm …
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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by …
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experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third …
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