manner that creates incentives for prospective SSI recipients to take social security early retirement (SSER). This paper …

provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …

Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In …

recently introduced "Riester pensions" depends on the state-provided saving incentives and how well the targeting to families … changes, Riester pension plans took off very quickly. While saving incentives were effective in reaching parents, they were …

This paper explores the relationship between time preferences, economic incentives, and body mass index (BMI). Using … to the largest weight gains among those exhibiting the most impatience. The interaction of changing economic incentives …

compensation plans on personal productivity. We study an international law firm that moves from high-powered individual incentives … towards incentives for "leadership" activities that contribute to the firm's long run profitability. The effect of this change …

, Learnfare provides uniquely powerful financial incentives for student performance. However, a 10-county random … percent. These results suggest that well-designed financial incentives can be an effective mechanism for improving the school …

The use of incentives to encourage healthy behaviors is increasingly widespread, but we have little evidence about how … margins through an experiment offering incentives to employees of a Fortune 500 company to use their workplace gym. Overall … the likelihood of joining the gym was not strongly affected by the incentive design. Notably, front-loading incentives to …

We derive a measure that captures the extent to which overlapping ownership structures shift managers' incentives to … possibility that the growth of common ownership has had a significant impact on managerial incentives.Institutional subscribers to …