We analyze the effects of family ties on the incentives for production of effort, where family ties are defined as a …

We build a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for … incentives. The model also allows us to identify settings that are conducive to multiple social norms of behavior, and those … the level and confidentiality or publicity of incentives. Sponsor competition may cause rewards to bid down rather than up …

behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial …, we show that extrinsic incentives interact with image motivation and are therefore less effective in public than in … private. Together, these results imply that image motivation is crowded out by monetary incentives; this means that monetary …

Multiple studies suggest that, contrary to economic rationale, offering monetary incentives to complete a task can … the role of non-monetary incentives in prosocial behavior. Specifically, we give 245 pairs of high school students … different incentives to collect donations for charity: low monetary incentives (1% of the total donations collected), high …

Multiple studies suggest that, contrary to economic rationale, offering monetary incentives to complete a task can … the role of non-monetary incentives in prosocial behavior. Specifically, we give 245 pairs of high school students … different incentives to collect donations for charity: low monetary incentives (1% of the total donations collected), high …