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effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice in the school lunchroom …Little is known about how peers influence the impact of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these … (choice of grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of peers incentivized, and whether or …
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misconduct by inducing them to blow the whistle. In a laboratory experiment we measure the effectiveness of incentives on the …
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Can a company attract a different type of employee by changing its compensation scheme? Is it sufficient to pay more to increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help...
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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents’ risk preferences, on … their recording behaviour. In the experiment, run shortly before the consumers start to fill in the diary, the consumers …
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stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a … comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational …
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. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds effects of weight loss rewards up to 18 months after they were removed …
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