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collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual …, this is true only for men, while women do not seem to react to non-monetary incentives. …
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financial incentives. We find that only higher-valued financial incentives generated more donations, increasing with the value … of the reward. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety or usability of the donated blood. We …
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run on Mechanical Turk, a popular online labor market, with monetary incentives. Adding a bonus for the correct answer … effects may indeed counteract the effect of monetary incentives. Our experiment casts doubts about the robustness of …
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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker’s effort on the manager’s payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent’s ability to “repay the gift”. We collect...
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While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we measure the output of four randomly selected groups of individuals who were asked to fill letters...
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A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from experiments in laboratories and non-experimental studies exploiting sports or firm data. Selection of competitors across tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies,...
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of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …
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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …
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