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A General Test of Gaming
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2004
responses, also known as gaming responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in practice … because this behavior is typically hidden from the researcher. We present a simple model showing that one can identify gaming … measure has been activated. Our hypothesis is that gaming takes place if this correlation decreases with activation. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697681
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Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems
Marschke, Gerald; Courty, Pascal - University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics - 2002
We present a model of how organizations manage performance measures when gaming is revealed over time. The incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517787
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A General Test of Gaming
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
responses, also known as gaming responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in practice … because this behaviour is typically hidden from the researcher. We present a simple model showing that one can identify gaming … measure has been activated. Our hypothesis is that gaming takes place if this correlation decreases with activation. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114434
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Curbing cream-skimming: evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268996
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Performance Incentives with Award Constraints
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies the provision of incentives in a large US training organization, which is divided into about 50 independent pools of training agencies. The number and the size of the agencies within each pool vary greatly. Each pool distributes performance incentive awards to the training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661877
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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor);  … - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793550
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Curbing Cream-Skimming : Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Courty, Pascal - 2009
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765325
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Curbing Cream-Skimming : Evidence on Enrollment Incentives
Courty, Pascal - 2008
Can enrollment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrollment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768165
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Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566402
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Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using data from a large, U.S. federal job training program, we investigate whether enrolment incentives that exogenously vary the ‘shadow prices’ for serving different demographic subgroups of clients influence case workers’ intake decisions. We show that case workers enroll more clients...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666832