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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 Abstract We present a model in which a motivator can take costly actions – or what we call motivational effort – in order to reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We distinguish two cases.
Kvaløy, Ola, Schöttner, Anja
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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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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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, 2007 In this paper we consider a moral hazard problem, in which the agent after receiving his wage contract but before undertaking the costly effort can borrow on his future wage earnings.
Reiche, Sonje
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, 2006 This paper considers hidden teacher effort in educational production and discusses the implications of multiple teacher effort dimensions on optimum incentive contracts in a theoretical framework.
Jaag, Christian
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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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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background Nigeria suffers from the highest burden of mother-to-child transmission worldwide. To increase retention in care and prevention programmes, we piloted and evaluated a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme for preventing mother-to-child ...
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All Out All the Time? Superstars and Incentives on the LPGA Tour
International Journal of Empirical Economics, 2022 Using data from the 1995-2006 LPGA Tour, we analyse players’ response to the presence of Annika Sorenstam, a dominant champion on the LPGA Tour at the time. We find that the measures of players’ responses are highly sensitive to specification.
Michael A. Leeds, Eva Marikova Leeds
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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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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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