IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5704

League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets

Stephen L. Cheung, Andrew Coleman

revised version published as 'Relative Performance Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 81 (2), 345-363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5693

Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests

Yigal Attali, Zvika Neeman, Analia Schlosser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5688

Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 764-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5618

Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5543

Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions: Theory and Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5501

Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5382

Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico S. Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5330

Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

Tom McKenzie, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5264

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler, Jörgen W. Weibull

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5255

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5204

Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Loukas Balafoutas, Martin G. Kocher, Louis Putterman, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 32-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5200

Respect as an Incentive

Tor Eriksson, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Respect and relational contracts' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (1), 286–298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5196

Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance

Torben M. Andersen, Michael Svarer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5191

Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System

Viktor Steiner, Florian Wakolbinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5103

Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Ambiguous Incentives and the Persistence of Effort: Experimental Evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 1-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5055

Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5040

Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5001

Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman

substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56