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Social Norms Offer Explanation for Inconsistent Effects of Incentives on Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Incentives have surprisingly inconsistent effects when it comes to encouraging people to behave prosocially. Classical economic theory, according to which a specific behavior becomes more prevalent when it is rewarded, struggles to explain why incentives sometimes backfire.
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Econometrica, 2008 Can incentives be effective in encouraging the development of good habits? We investigate the post-intervention effects of paying people to attend a gym a number of times during one month. In two studies we find marked attendance increases after the intervention relative to attendance changes for the respective control groups.
Charness, Gary B, Gneezy, Uri
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IEEE Access, 2021 Adequate policies or incentives are needed to support investment in renewable energy industries. However, renewable power plant operators in South Korea may face the risk of finding it difficult to recoup their capital cost in the absence of a peak ...
Woong Ko, Mun-Kyeom Kim
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 When confronted with important questions we like to rely on the advice of experts. However, uncertainty can occur regarding advisors’ motivation to pursue self-interest and deceive the client.
Barbara eMackinger, Eva eJonas
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The behavior of construction workers has a significant impact on the overall safety climate of a project. The purpose of this paper is to figure out the evolutionary pattern of workers' unsafe behavior and to minimize its occurrence. We constructed a two-
Jianling Huang +5 more
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Incentives for experimenting agents [PDF]
The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012 We examine a repeated interaction between an agent who undertakes experiments and a principal who provides the requisite funding. A dynamic agency cost arises—the more lucrative the agent's stream of rents following a failure, the more costly are current incentives, giving the principal a motivation to reduce the project's continuation value.
Larry Samuelson +2 more
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International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Economy, 2021 The state of public procurement as a tool for stimulating innovation is analyzed both in developed countries and in Uzbekistan. It is proposed to conclude that at different stages of placing and executing a government order, there are many risks ...
Mardanova Rano Isakovna +1 more
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Incentives Don't Solve Blockchain's Problems [PDF]
, 2019 A blockchain faces two fundamental challenges. It must motivate users to maintain the system while preventing a minority of these users from colluding and gaining disproportionate control. Many popular public blockchains use monetary incentives to encourage users to behave appropriately.
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2004 We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this “overjustification effect” can induce a partial or even ...
Roland Bénabou +3 more
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Policy Impact on Economic Viability of Biomass Gasification Systems in Indonesia
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2016 Indonesia is facing challenges on the lack of electricity access in rural areas and the management of agricultural waste. The utilization of waste-to-energy technology can help in mitigating these issues.
Pranpreya Sriwannawit +2 more
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