This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public … consistent with workers having a preference for conformity. -- Employee motivation ; recognition ; reciprocity ; conformity … ; field experiment …

, are highly unpopular. This contribution looks into the role of intrinsic motivation as a driver for pension reform … unambiguous: In addition to factors such as age or education, the inclusion of intrinsic work motivation helps to improve our …

Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …

various theories that could explain the effect. -- Awards ; Motivation ; Non-monetary Compensation ; Insider Econometrics …

of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception …. Furthermore, this effect still persists several years after the German reunification. -- Media ; beliefs ; East Germany ; GSOEP …

experiment with a sample of the residential population in Mannheim, Germany. Participants were endowed with € 40 and given the …

regime. -- tax reforms ; tax compliance ; experiment …