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Collective Production and Incentives [PDF]
, 2006 We analyse incentive problems in collective production environments where contributors are compensated according to their observed and ranked efforts.
Gershkov, Alex +2 more
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Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2019 Background: Enrollment and retention difficulties remain major barriers to conducting clinical trials. Financial incentives may promote clinical trial enrollment, however delivery methods to maximize enrollment, maximize retention, and minimize cost ...
Dustin C. Krutsinger +5 more
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Incentivizing Participation in Crowd-Sensing Applications Through Fair and Private Bitcoin Rewards
IEEE Access, 2022 In this work we develop a rewarding framework that can be used to enhance existing crowd-sensing applications. Although a core requirement of such systems is user engagement, people may be reluctant to participate because sensitive information about them
Tassos Dimitriou, Antonis Michalas
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Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 This essay describes and evaluates state and local business tax incentives in the United States. In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita on incentives for firms in the form of firm-specific subsidies and general tax credits, which mostly ...
C. Slattery, Owen M. Zidar
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Competition and incentives [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2017 We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors increases, monetary incentives to engage in cost reduction tend to decrease. We test the hypothesis that there are non-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the opposite direction.
Lisa Fey +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper provides a comprehensive overview of field experiments utilizing social norms, commitment and price-based interventions to promote energy conservation, load shifting, and energy efficiency behaviors.
Stepan Vesely +7 more
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The Effects of Fiscal Incentives for R & D in Spain [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the effect of fiscal incentives for R&D on innovation. Spain is considered one of the most generous countries in the OECD in fiscal treatment of R&D, yet our data reveal that tax incentives are little known and, especially, seldom ...
Corchuelo, Beatriz, Martínez Ros, Ester
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 “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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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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Leveraging incentives to increase HIV testing uptake among men: qualitative insights from rural Uganda. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND:Few studies have explored how economic incentives influence behavioral outcomes. This study aimed to identify pathways of action of an incentives-based intervention to increase men's participation in HIV testing.
Byamukama, Ambrose +11 more
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