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Performance incentives in education : the role of goal mismatch

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Thiemann, Petra; Wengstrom, Erik - 2025

We conduct a field experiment studying how financial incentives for achieving specific course grades affect university … incentives negatively affect performance, particularly among low-ability students assigned high goals. Survey data suggest this … caution against incentives in education and highlight a novel mechanism through which incentives can backfire. …

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Performance targets and ex post incentive plan adjustments

Hyun, Jeong-Hoon; Matĕjka, Michal; Oh, Peter; Ahn, Tae Sik - In: Contemporary accounting research : the journal of the … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 863-892

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Budgetary slack under budget-based incentive schemes : the behavioral impact of social preferences, organizational justice, and moral disengagement

Liessem, Thomas; Schedlinsky, Ivo; Schwering, Anja; … - In: Journal of management control : Zeitschrift für … 26 (2015) 1, pp. 81-94

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Internal versus external earnings per share goals and CEO incentives

Armstrong, Christopher; Chau, Jacky; Ittner, Christopher D. - 2017

We examine differences in CEO achievement of EPS goals set separately through analyst forecasts and firm bonus plans. Having different goals for the same performance metric enables us to assess their relative importance in incentivizing CEOs. We find CEOs frequently achieve analyst forecasts,...

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