Carrots over Sticks? Mothers’ Pensions and Child Labor in the Early 20th Century U.S.

Sticks and Carrots in Procurement∗

We study differently framed incentives in dynamic laboratory buyerseller relationships with multi-tasking and endogenous matching. The experimental design tries to mitigate the role of social preferences and intrinsic motivation. Absent explicit incentives, effort is low in both tasks. Their introduction boosts efficiency substantially increasing effort in the contractible task, mildly crowding...

Editorials Carrots, sticks and tuberculosis

The spectrum of nitrofurantoin lung injury continues to widen. The case histories are presented of two patients who developed lung disease associated with the use of nitrofurantoin with histological features of bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP), a rare but recognised form of drug induced injury. The two middle aged women presented with respiratory symptoms after prolonged tre...

Worms and Germs, Drink and Dementia: US Health, Society, and Policy in the Early 20th Century

Case study and narrative are essential and complementary ways to understand history: case study dissects historical events into their logical elements, whereas narrative connects us to the sum of these elements, which may be startlingly different from the outcomes predicted by logic. The historical stories in this report describe selected US public health events from 1900 to 1932 and link these...

Public pensions and labor supply over the life cycle

Carrots and sticks for quality health care.