We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …

of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by … incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory … experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently …

reforms used as natural experiments that induce exogenous variation on the institutional context and incentives coming …