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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338944
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Philanthropy and public policy
Dickinson, Frank G. (contributor) - 1962
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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 …
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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
perform better. By conducting a natural field experiment, we aim to test whether this policy actually has the predicted …
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In the long-run we are all dead : on the benefits of peer punishment in rich environments ; conference paper
Engelmann, Dirk; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2013
We investigate whether peer punishment is an efficient mechanism for enforcing cooperation in an experiment with a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343787
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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
This paper examines field experiment in which we encourage the use of computer-based tests (quizzes) through a set of … 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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342882
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Who cares for social image? : interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns ; conference paper
Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2013
We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We … elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment. In the experiment, we elicit willingness to pay for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices. …
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