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Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...

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Knight fever : towards an economics of awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...

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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance

Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Bosworth, Steven J.; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Identity-Driven Cooperation versus Competition

Snower, Dennis; Bosworth, Steven J. - 2016

This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...

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Wage Policy and Endogenous Wage Rigidity: A Representative View From the Inside

Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - 2002

have an impact on attitudes concerning effort and motivation. …

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Why are Small Firms Different? Managers' Views

Agell, Jonas - 2003

care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …

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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I ﬁnd that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not aﬀect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …

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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects: The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases

La Nauze, Andrea - 2021

I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...

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