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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 We study 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 chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to ...
Martin Gaynor +3 more
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision [PDF]
Public Choice, 2009 In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows for greater influence over the nature of political decision making while unification allows regions to exploit economies of scale in the provision of public goods. When public good provision is relatively inexpensive, separation occurs
Staal, Klaas
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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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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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, 1997 We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that affect the plants that he oversees directly or indirectly.
Eric Maskin, Yingyi Qian, Cheng-Gang Xu
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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 ...
R. Bénabou, J. Tirole
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment relationship is endogeneous. In our three-stage gift-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after ...
Marie Claire Villeval +2 more
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Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022 Surveys typically use hypothetical questions to measure subjective and unverifiable concepts like happiness and quality of life. We test whether this is problematic using a large survey experiment on health and subjective well-being. We use Prelec’s Bayesian truth serum to incentivize the experiment and defaults to introduce biases in responses ...
Baillon, Aurélien +2 more
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An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis [PDF]
, 2008 Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability of punishment.
Hörisch, Hannah, Strassmair, Christina
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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 ...
Cappelen, Alexander W. +3 more
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