User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

Amidst the continuing controversy over American economic development incentives, this article looks at three key effectiveness issues: Do economic development incentives encourage new investment and employment? Are these incentives targeted at economically depressed areas or economically depressed people? How costly are these incentives? For all these questions, our findings come out against tr...

When economists study incentives in organizations, the main focus has been on using monetary payments in exchange for performance on speci c measurable dimensions. But organizations use a wide variety of means to motivate their workers. One such method which has not been studied much to date, is the explicit creation of status rewards attached to good performance.1 Under such schemes, an agent ...

Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and nonprofit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort experiment. We find that soci...

First observed by Fama (1980) and later shown by Holmström (1999) in a seminal paper, an economic agent's concern for themarket's perception of his productivity can create incentives to work hard even without any explicit incentives. Since then, career concerns models often assume that agents differ in their inherent ability, which affects their productivity by a constant in each period of empl...

Purpose To describe how tailoring financial incentives for healthy behaviors to employees' goals, values, and aspirations might improve the efficacy of incentives. Design/methodology/approach We integrate insights from self-determination theory (SDT) with principles from behavioral economics in the design of financial incentives by linking how incentives could help meet an employee's life goa...

The economist also emphasizes incentive effects which markets present to economic actors. Proper incentives can promote efficient use of scarce resources, while distorted or ineffective incentives will lead to waste. In a similar fashion, incentives will be influenced by decisions made in courts of law. Decisions can be framed so as to give proper incentives to individuals in such areas as cont...

The present studies adopted the theoretical framework of activityand purpose-related incentives (Rheinberg, 2008) to explain the maintenance of physical activity. We hypothesized that activityrelated incentives (e.g., “fun”) increase more than purpose-related incentives (e.g., “health”) between the initiation and maintenance phase of physical activity. Additionally, change in activity-related i...

We integrate the literatures on exploration/exploitation and incentives, to examine how incentives impact individuals to explore new ideas or exploit existing ideas, as well as how this impact is dependent on the capabilities of individuals and peer-related performance comparisons. Further, we also investigate the implications of the change of incentives on exploration performance. We make use ...