The effect of financial incentives on performance: A quantitative review of individual and team‐based financial incentives

Y Garbers, U Konradt - Journal of occupational and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We meta‐analysed 146 studies (n= 31,861) to examine the effects of individual and team‐
based financial incentives on peoples' performance and to explore potential moderators …

Financial incentives for physical activity in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis

MS Mitchell, SL Orstad, A Biswas, PI Oh… - British journal of sports …, 2020 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective The use of financial incentives to promote physical activity (PA) has grown in
popularity due in part to technological advances that make it easier to track and reward PA …

Work from home and productivity: Evidence from personnel and analytics data on information technology professionals

M Gibbs, F Mengel, C Siemroth - Journal of Political …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study employee productivity before and during the working-from-home period of the
COVID-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled …

Peer effects in program participation

GB Dahl, KV Løken, M Mogstad - American Economic Review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

Peer effects in the workplace

T Cornelissen, C Dustmann… - American Economic …, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Existing evidence on peer effects in the productivity of coworkers stems from either
laboratory experiments or real-world studies referring to a specific firm or occupation. In this …

Groups make better self-interested decisions

G Charness, M Sutter - Journal of economic perspectives, 2012 - aeaweb.org
In this paper, we describe what economists have learned about differences between group
and individual decision-making. This literature is still young, and in this paper, we will mostly …

Incentives, commitments, and habit formation in exercise: evidence from a field experiment with workers at a fortune-500 company

H Royer, M Stehr, J Sydnor - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2015 - aeaweb.org
Financial incentives have shown strong positive short-run effects for problematic health
behaviors that likely stem from time inconsistency. However, the effects often disappear …

Are women more attracted to co‐operation than men?

P Kuhn, MC Villeval - The Economic Journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We conduct a real‐effort experiment where participants choose between individual
compensation and team‐based pay. In contrast to tournaments, we find that women choose …

Experimental methods: Extra-laboratory experiments-extending the reach of experimental economics

G Charness, U Gneezy, MA Kuhn - Journal of economic behavior & …, 2013 - Elsevier
We propose a new organizing scheme for classifying types of experiments. In addition to the
standard categories of laboratory and field experiments, we suggest a new category:“extra …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Performance feedback and peer effects

MC Villeval - 2020 - Springer
This chapter reviews studies conducted in naturally occurring work environments or in the
laboratory on the impact of the provision of performance feedback and peer effects on …