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Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the analysis highlights paths for further investigation....

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The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Levitt, Steven D. - 2016

We test the effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement in a low-performing school district using a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an achievement standard based on multiple measures of performance...

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Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

Aizenman, Joshua - 2006

leader in basic research. Our study is based on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global …

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Prizes and Productivity : How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output

Borjas, George J. - 2013

Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...

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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

This paper provides novel field-experimental evidence on status goods. We work with an Indonesian bank that markets … exceeds demand for a nondescript control product with identical benefits, suggesting demand for the pure status aspect of the … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status …

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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Anton, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; Schmalz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes variation in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industry and intra-firm cross-market...

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Bonus Question : Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?

Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John R.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first-order equivalent in an economy with flexible incentive pay and...

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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives : Evidence from the Patent Office

Frakes, Michael; Wasserman, Melissa F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A quota system with an associated deadline may retain the possibility of worker procrastination and related deadline behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to alleviate deadline effects but may lose some of the...

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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers : An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks

Freeman, Richard B.; Pan, Xiaofei; Yang, Xiaolan; Ye, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds. Yet little is known about how team members with different...

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Preferences, Inequities, and Incentives in the Substitute Teacher Labor Market

Kraft, Matthew A.; Conklin, Megan Lane; Falken, Grace T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the labor supply decisions of substitute teachers - a large, on-demand market with broad shortages and inequitable supply. In 2018, Chicago Public Schools implemented a targeted bonus program designed to reduce unfilled teacher absences in largely segregated Black schools with...

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