competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …

assumption, which we relax. We find that, although monetary incentives are effective also with sociallyattentive agents, the … monetary incentives. We also show that the principal benefits from having a socially-attentive agent and how she optimally …