interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the intensity of motivation and bears the motivational costs. Second, another … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

intrinsic motivation for students with low skills, while girls also respond less to rank-based incentives if tested with less … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find …How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test …

incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory …