We study a two-stage model in which the agent's ability is initially unknown to any party, but the principal can choose a pre-hire screening scheme to discover the agent's ability before offering a contract. Perfect screening enables the principal to fine-tune the contract to the agent's...

This paper reports the results of a large randomized field experiment that investigates the extent to which nudges can stimulate student participation in teaching evaluations. The three nudges that we used were designed to either: (1) heighten students’ perceived impact of teaching...