We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members … groups, receiving a payment if they attended the gym at least 9 times over their first 6 weeks as members. The incentives … were a $30 payment, a $60 payment, and an item costing $30 that leveraged the endowment effect. These incentives had only …

investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and explores whether commitment devices and monetary incentives can be used to … incentives to sleep, and collected data from wearable activity trackers, surveys, and time-use diaries. Our results are … the monetary incentives by significantly increasing the likelihood of sleeping between 7 and 9 hours (+19%). We uncover …

multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field …

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …