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The RAND Journal of Economics, 2008 This article introduces status as reflecting an agent's claim to recognition in her work. This is a scarce resource: increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status be decreased. Higher‐status agents are more willing to exert effort in exchange for money; better‐paid agents would exert higher effort in exchange for improved status ...
Auriol, Emmanuelle, Renault, Régis
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Delegation and incentives [PDF]
The RAND Journal of Economics, 2008 This article analyzes the relation between authority and incentives. It extends the standard principal‐agent model by a project selection stage in which the principal can either delegate the choice of project to the agent or keep the authority. The agent's subsequent choice of effort depends both on monetary incentives and the selected project.
Bester, Helmut, Krähmer, Daniel
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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.
Kaoru Ueda, Debraj Ray, Debraj Ray
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Non-monetary incentives in the form of awards have so far escaped the attention ofneconomists despite their widespread use. This paper presents an experiment conductednonline at IBM to assess the impact of these kinds of extrinsic incentives. Introducing a hypothetical award has statistically significant effects on stated contributions to a publicngood.
Neckermann, Susanne, Frey, Bruno S
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Incentive Design for Efficient Federated Learning in Mobile Networks: A Contract Theory Approach [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Conference on Wearable Computing Systems, 2019 To strengthen data privacy and security, federated learning as an emerging machine learning technique is proposed to enable large-scale nodes, e.g., mobile devices, to distributedly train and globally share models without revealing their local data. This
Jiawen Kang +5 more
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Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009 This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Incentives to learn, conducted between March 2001 and March 2002 school year in Kenya. The study observed the impact of merit scholarship program on adolescent girls in Kenya on the student level.
Kremer, Michael +2 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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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 Rain gardens are gardens with a specific purpose. Designed as a shallow depression that captures stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, rain gardens are planted with deep-rooted, wet/dry-cycle tolerant plants that enable the water to slowly permeate
Linda B. Jahnke, Michael R. Barnes
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Founding family firms, CEO incentive pay, and dual agency problems [PDF]
, 2016 This paper contributes to the literature on agency theory by examining relations between family involvement and CEO compensation. Using a panel of 362 small U.S.
Mazur, Mieszko, Wu, Betty H.-T.
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Incentives for Procrastinators [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Ted O'Donoghue, Matthew Rabin
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