I show that stochastic contracts generate powerful incentives when agents suffer from probability distortion. When …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …

In this paper we investigate whether the framing of the incentives used to foster participation into contexts …/punishment framing of incentives. We find that individuals characterized by a high degree of risk aversion perform worse under time …

men's and women's reactions to the incentives provided by pay and promotion. The large and robust gender differences … displayed in the raw data are therefore not due to incentives. We need to look elsewhere for an explanation. Similarly large and … incentives is factored out …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …