Advocates of teacher incentive programs argue that they can strengthen weak incentives, while opponents argue they lead … to teaching to the test.' We find evidence that existing teacher incentives in Kenya are indeed weak, with teachers … Kenya with incentives based on students' test scores. Students in program schools had higher test scores, significantly so …

Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … incentives when they specify the rules by which awards are made. The following analysis is an exercise in understanding … incentives at an applied level. Specific rules are examined and analyzed to determine their incentive effects. For example, what …

. In the presence of career concerns, the optimal compensation contract optimizes total incentives -- the combination of … the implicit incentives from career concerns and the explicit incentives from the compensation contract. Thus, the … explicit incentives from the optimal compensation contract should be strongest when a worker is close to retirement. We find …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used quality measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and evidence related to the classic agency model, which emphasizes … the tradeoff between insurance and incentives. I then offer econometric and case-study evidence suggesting that this …

In this paper I summarize four new strands in agency theory that help me think about incentives in real organizations … assessments; incentives for skill development rather than simply for effort; and incentive contracts between versus within …

healthcare. We argue that markets are most advantageous in areas where high-powered incentives are desirable, but in areas where … high-powered incentives stimulate unproductive signalling effort, firms, or even government, may have a comparative … advantage. Firms may be able to weaken incentives and improve efficiency by obscuring information about individual workers …