The successful operation of emerging public wireless LANs requires flexible network mechanisms that can support differentiated or tiered services for a variety of applications such as bursty transactional web applications as well as reservation demanding voice and video applications. Congestion pricing has been proposed as one promising solution to traffic control because it accurately models t...

Monetary incentives are increasingly used to help motivate survey participation. This article summarizes several theories underlying the use of incentives and briefly reviews research demonstrating their intended and unintended effects on response rates, sample composition, response bias, and response quality. It also considers the evidence for the effectiveness of incentives in reducing nonres...

Do higher levels of variable pay reduce salesperson intrinsic motivation? The pattern of findings from past sales management studies is intriguing and may suggest self-determination concepts are applicable. Testing this applicability on a cross-section of industrial salespeople, we found pay plans with higher variable proportions can lead to higher levels of intrinsic motivation. As hypothesize...

We analyze delegation of monetary policy to an independent but accountable Central Banker (CB) in a setting with a dynamic Phillips curve. The paper describes a mechanism that resolves the government's time inconsistency problem. Our proposal closely resembles real-world institutional arrangements and delivers credible implementation of the social optimum by giving dynamic incentives to the CB....

Participation of people is the most important factor in providing high quality of service in mobile sensing applications. In this paper we study coupons as incentives in order to stimulate users participation, especially in applications that rely on real-time data. We argue that coupons do not only function as incentives to increase user participation, but they can also direct more people to th...

We test the value of unconditional non-monetary gifts as a way to improve health worker performance in a low income country health setting. We randomly assigned health workers to different gift treatments within a program that visited health workers, measured performance and encouraged them to provide high quality care for their patients. We show that unconditional non-monetary gifts improve pe...

Memory retrieval is typically a goal-directed behavior, and as such, potentially influenced by reinforcement and motivation processes. Although striatal activation is often evident during memory retrieval, its functional significance remains unclear because typical memory paradigms do not control the motivational significance of memory decisions. We used event-related functional magnetic resona...

Theory of Mind (ToM)--the ability to understand other's thoughts, intentions, and emotions--is important for navigating interpersonal relationships, avoiding conflict, and empathizing. Prior research has identified many factors that affect one's ToM ability, but little work has examined how different kinds of monetary incentives affect ToM ability. We ask: Does money affect ToM ability? If so, ...

Theory of Mind (ToM) ─ the ability to understand other's thoughts, intentions, and emotions ─ is important for navigating interpersonal relationships, avoiding conflict, and empathizing. Prior research has identified many factors that affect one's ToM, but no study has examined how different kinds of monetary incentives affect ToM. We ask: Does money affect ToM? If so, how does the affect of mo...

Modern communication networks handle millions of applications simultaneously, and mechanisms of resource sharing, most prominently sharing of data transmission bandwidth and processing power, between competing jobs have been considered in computer science since its beginning. Classical mechanisms, however, balance claims of cooperating users that do not try to manipulate the system to their adv...