Incentives and social preferences

Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or ...

Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? by Samuel Bowles and Sandra Polania-Reyes. Published in volume 50, issue 2, ...

Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from ...

We present evidence on whether workers have social preferences by comparing workers' productivity under relative incentives, where individual effort imposes a ...

Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes - jstor

Notes: Under separability (top dashed line), incentives and social preferences are additive. Under strong marginal crowding out, the use of the incentive is ...

A Preference-Based Lucas Critique of Public Policy | Santa Fe Institute

Policies and explicit incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism.

Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

We investigate the design of optimal incentives to contribute to a public good under these effects would make either more or less use of explicit incentives.

social preferences and the response to incentives: evidence from ...

We present evidence on whether workers have social preferences by compar- ing workers' productivity under relative incentives, where individual effort im-.

Long-lasting effects of incentives and social preference: A public ...

Our results show that all incentive mechanisms significantly increase contributions in the short run. The highest average contribution is ...

Efficient incentives with social preferences - Theoretical Economics

Mechanism design, social preferences, Bayesian implementation, participation constraints, participation stimulation, contests, money pump. JEL ...

Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or ...

We show that well designed fines, subsidies and the like minimize crowding out and may even do the opposite, making incentives and social preferences ...

social preferences and the response to incentives: evidence from ...

We present evidence on whether workers have social preferences by compar- ing workers' productivity under relative incentives, where individual effort im-.

Incentives and social preferences

Incentives are widely and frequently used to influence preferences among people with the aim of achieving some socially beneficial end.

(PDF) Economic Incentives and Social Preferences - ResearchGate

In both types of interaction with the public sector, the private agents are bound to face uncertainty with respect to their disposable incomes. To analyse ...

Economic incentives and social preferences: Causal evidence of ...

These findings provide causal evidence that economic incentives may negatively affect pro-social behavior. More generally, they indicate that social preferences ...

Efficient incentives with social preferences - EconStor

We assume quasi-linear utility and independent types. We show how the asymmetry of information about agents' social preferences can be ...

Efficient Incentives with Social Preferences | Publications - CESifo

This study explores mechanism design with allocation-based social preferences. Agents' social preferences and private payoffs are all subject to asymmetric ...

How social preferences provide effort incentives in situations of ...

We conclude that effort provision via social preferences leads to gains in material efficiency because the welfare of giver-receiver pairs is ...

Moral sentiments and material interests: When economic incentives ...

Moral sentiments and material interests: When economic incentives crowd in social preferences ... Explicit economic incentives – for example, a ...

Economic Incentives and Social Preferences - IDEAS/RePEc

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish ...

How Social Preferences Shape Incentives in (Experimental) Markets ...

The first condition requires that – holding the monetary pay‐off of the customer constant – the seller's utility increases in her own monetary pay‐off. This ...

Incentives and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a ...

Through analyses of individual workers' performance data from framed field experiments and data on social preferences elicited by artefactual field experiments, ...