"In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher compensation ŁV education and experience ŁV and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement gains. We...

A model is developed to understand how norms can be influenced by "norm entrepreneurs", e.g. lawmakers, government agencies, unions etc. Two instruments of influencing the dynamics of normfollowing behavior are analyzed, namely transforming the (monetary) incentives and changing the meaning or...

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...