crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …

-averse investors buy more of the safe asset. Applying this intuition to incentive pay contracts, we develop a model and an experiment … that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …

intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …

We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, we find that treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to … the incentives, while the responsiveness of treatment stores close to winning a bonus increases in relative performance …