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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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African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2021 The water crisis has reached a fever pitch in South Africa, with threats of ground zero and disruption of water supplies. The paper focuses on household knowledge and awareness of the water crisis and conservation efforts to reduce water consumption in a
Rookmoney Thakur +2 more
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Incentives for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 BACKGROUND Financial incentives, monetary or vouchers, are widely used in an attempt to precipitate, reinforce and sustain behaviour change, including smoking cessation.
C. Notley +5 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 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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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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Contracting for Nonpoint-Source Pollution Abatement
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1998 This study presents an incentive scheme to control agricultural nonpoint-source pollution. The analysis is based on a principal-agent framework with two parties: farmers and a regulating authority.
Olof Bystrom, Daniel W. Bromley
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Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2019 Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a mature technology commonly used for manure treatment, both for the stabilisation of waste and for the production of energy.
Ester Scotto di Perta +3 more
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Social Science Research Network, 2007 This paper experimentally examines image motivation--the desire to be liked and well regarded by others--as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial ...
D. Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier
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We thought it might encourage participation.” Using lottery incentives to improve LibQUAL+(TM) response rates among students [PDF]
, 2012 Libraries deploying the LibQUAL+™ survey can offer a lottery incentive and many do in the hope of increasing response rates. Other libraries may be prohibited from offering one because of Institutional Review Board restrictions, as is the case at ...
Bridges, Laurie M. +2 more
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