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Multitasking and the benefits of objective performance measurement : evidence from a field experiment ; conference paper

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013 - Preliminary version

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers allocated bonuses to their employees based on subjective...

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"Making it count" : evidence from a field experiment on assessment rules, study incentives and student performance ; conference paper

Chevalier, Arnaud; Dolton, Peter J.; Luehrmann, Melanie - 2013

non-financial incentives and test their effect on effort and performance of students. Our identification strategy exploits … cross-cohort experimental variation in assessment rules and within course variation in incentives to determine their impact … on the performance in exams. We find these incentives to result in an increase in grades of 2.4 marks or about 4%. The …

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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients : lessons from a randomized field experiment ; [conference paper]

Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - 2014 - This draft: 1/15/2014, Preliminary draft

Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...

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Optimal capital taxation for time-nonseparable preferences : conference paper

Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013

incentives across time and thereby generate novel motives to distort capital accumulation decisions. We decompose intertemporal …

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Timing of kindness : evidence from a field experiment ; conference paper

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2014 - This version: 10 December 2013

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers performance is about 11% higher for the...

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Labor demand for senior employees in the context of early retirement : conference paper

Amann, Erwin; Marczok, Yvonne Maria - 2013

incentives to the worker in the light of generous early retirement opportunities. The sociological literature on the other hand … decrease of the incentives to retire early, e.g. by a raise in the average effective retirement age, need not necessarily harm …

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Price discontinuities in an online used car market : conference paper

Englmaier, Florian; Schmöller, Arno Robin; Stowasser, Till - 2013

We examine empirically whether individuals evaluating used cars efficiently aggregate all relevant information on its constituent characteristics. Based on detailed field data on more than 80,000 used car offers in a large online marketplace, we provide evidence for biased information...

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Do self-determined wages really improve employees performance? : evidence from a randomized field experiment : conference paper

Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014

Recent laboratory evidence suggests that employees who have the extraordinary right to self-determine their wages perform better. By conducting a natural field experiment, we aim to test whether this policy actually has the predicted positive effects in a real-labor market. Employees were hired...

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mechanization of Field Experiments, Brno, Czechoslovakia, July 10th - 15th, 1972

Staněk, J. (contributor); Sedláček, J. (contributor) - 1972

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The effects of financial literacy training : evidence from a field experiment in German high schools ; conference paper

Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2013

We report the results of a field experiment evaluating the impact of financial literacy training on teenagers between 14 and 16 years in German high schools. After the training, treated teenagers exhibit a significant increase in both interest in financial matters and self-assessed knowledge...

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