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This paper analyzes intertemporal effort provision in two-stage tournaments. A principal with a fixed budget for prizes faces two risk-neutral agents. He observes noisy signals of effort in both periods. His goal is to maximize either total efforts (perfect substitutes) or the product of first-...
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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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Incentives often distort behavior: they induce agents to exert effort but this effort is not employed optimally. This …
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In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to … improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of … date has not succeeded in distinguishing between the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives, which are usually …
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