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Leadership and Incentives [PDF]
Management Science, 2016 We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, and the three other treatments allowed participants to volunteer to be the leader in their group and make their contribution before ...
Alexander W. Cappelen +3 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 2009 We study a model where a decision maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same underlying preferences as the DM; they differ, however, in their prior beliefs about the state, which we interpret as differences of opinion. We derive a tradeoff faced by the
Che, Yeon-Koo, Kartik, Navin
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Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2020 “Big data” gives markets access to previously unmeasured characteristics of individual agents. Policymakers must decide whether and how to regulate the use of this data. We study how new data affects incentives for agents to exert effort in settings such as the labor market, where an agent's quality is initially unknown but is forecast from an ...
Liang, Annie, Madsen, Erik
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, 2001 We studied the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would choose in the absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do, in fact, induce physicians
Martin Gaynor +2 more
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PARS: Privacy-Aware Reward System for Mobile Crowdsensing Systems
Sensors, 2021 Crowdsensing systems have been developed for wide-area sensing tasks because humancarried smartphones are prevailing and becoming capable. To encourage more people to participate in sensing tasks, various incentive mechanisms were proposed.
Zhong Zhang, Dae Hyun Yum, Minho Shin
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Egalitarianism and Incentives [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1996 A group of agents is collectively engaged in a joint productive activity. Each agent supplies an observable input, and output is then collectively shared among the members. A Bergson-Samuelson welfare function defined on individual utilities describes the social values of the agents. However, individual actions are taken on a selfish basis.
Ray, Debraj, Ueda, Kaoru
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Exploratory Search: Information Matters More than Primary Reward [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 In the study of animal foraging, resource exploitation (prey pursuit, handling, and consumption) has received much more attention than the search or exploratory process that leads predator to potential prey—whatever they are.
Patrick Anselme
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Cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study of societal impact
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background The prevalence of atrial fibrillation is increasing rapidly; however, to date, population-based data are lacking on the attributable cost of illness of atrial fibrillation from a societal perspective, including both direct and indirect costs ...
Søren Paaske Johnsen +4 more
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A Review of the Impact of Different Social Policy Incentives to Accelerate Population Growth Rate [PDF]
Women’s Health Bulletin, 2014 Context: Cash payments or other incentive policies to improve population growth rate have been used for many years; but the efficiency of these policies has not yet been fully understood.
Samira Behboudi Gandevani +2 more
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Antibiotics, 2023 Since 2020, England’s Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) has incentivised increased antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities in community pharmacy. In 2020/21, this included the requirement for staff to complete an AMS e-Learning module, pledge to be an ...
Catherine V. Hayes +5 more
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