What Motivates Effort?: Evidence and Expert Forecasts

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Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself (2017, methodology): “To investigate this, we tested the impact of incentives on an effort task in which subjects alternately press the “a" and “b" buttons on their keyboards (see e.g., Ariely et al., 2009; DellaVigna and Pope, 2018).”
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations (2020, positive): “Our paper contributes to a recent body of research on the personnel economics of the state, reviewed in details by Finan et al. (2015). Studies in this growing literature have analyzed the role of incentives in the selection and performance of public sector workers (Dal Bó et al.”
RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units (2020, result): “? While we did not ask this question exactly, we surveyed academic researchers and nudge practitioners about their expectation for the findings of our study, as in DellaVigna and Pope (2018) and along lines outlined by DellaVigna, Pope, and Vivalt (2019).”