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Gift Exchange within a Firm:Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...

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Gender, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Teaching

Barigozzi, Francesca; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper investigates the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in choosing a teaching career using data from … and job amenities (such as motivation for the job, job security, and work/family life balance) have a different influence … schools. Notwithstanding evidence of positive selection into teaching in terms of cognitive ability and motivation for the job …

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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - 2022

Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...

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Motivational Goal Bracketing : An Experiment

Koch, Alexander K. - 2017

We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket – daily goals or a weekly goal – and within that bracket let subjects set goals for how much they want to...

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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

endowment. We also propose a new method of detecting warm glow motivation based on the idea that in a random-lottery incentive … motivation does not …

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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector : Evidence from Ethiopia

Serra, Danila - 2015

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

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Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation : Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors

Bruhin, Adrian - 2014

Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among … serving us as an instrument for identifying motivational spillovers. About 40% of a donor's motivation spills over to the …

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Using Goals to Motivate College Students : Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Clark, Damon - 2016

Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We...

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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Kajackaite, Agne - 2018

that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation …

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Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education Among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Burgess, Simon M. - 2018

We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...

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