increase for all households with dispensers. Monitoring and incentives raise handwashing contemporaneously, and effects persist …

We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect … dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being …

We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect … dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being …

Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi …-nation of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points in …

Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique … combination of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points …

Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated … activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features … related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for … between observer and observee. Observability involving economic incentives crowds-out anti-social behavior in favor of more …