This paper develops a research model explaining how task location and incentives affect the take up and, for those tasks that are processed, the time to start. For an empirical analysis, we use the system-generated data of all 1860 location-based crowdsourcing tasks in Berlin available on the Streetspotr platform within one year. The results indicate that while the population density of the tas...

Background In many developing countries like Ghana, community volunteers assist in the provision of certain health services to rural and hard-to-reach communities. This study examined factors that influence the motivation and retention of community-based volunteers supporting with work on health-related activities at the community level in Ghana.   Methods Using a sequential mixed-method design...

This paper reports the results of a natural field experiment where workers from a paid crowdsourcing environment selfselect into tasks and are presumed to have limited attention. In our experiment, workers labeled any of six pictures from a 2 x 3 grid of thumbnail images. In the absence of any incentives, workers exhibit a strong default bias and tend to select images from the top-left (“focal”...

Monetary and non-monetary incentives for rural teacher recruitment are a prominent feature of developing-country education systems. Despite the widespread use of incentives, there is little theoretical or empirical evidence on their e!ectiveness. This paper interprets incentive policies within the framework of the economic theory of compensating di!erentials. The discussion clari"es the implici...

BACKGROUND Injection drug users (IDUs) are at high-risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV. Due to concerns about non-adherence to multi-dose vaccine regimens however, IDUs are severely under-immunized against HBV and have been excluded from phase III trials of multi-dose candidate HIV vaccines in the United States. METHODS Through a randomized controlled trial, we compared the effectiveness...

This paper investigates the e€ects of performance based monetary incentives on cue usage within the information overload paradigm. Participants suggested appropriate stock prices for hypothetical companies based on either six or nine non-correlated information cues. The presence of monetary incentives motivated increased response times compared to participants who did not receive incentives. Th...

The aim of this study is to research how different incentives affect the employees performance and job satisfaction. In , effects recognition, participation, feedback, monetary incentives, non-monetary tangible benefits on satisfaction are researched. It posited that have Effects researched through critical literature review Questionnaire.