. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking …

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 …