Monetary incentives, what are they good for?

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Monetary incentives in the loss domain and behavior toward risk: An experimental comparison of three reward schemes including real losses (2011, background): “A large body of experimental literature has been devoted to the question of whether monetary incentives actually fulfill their role as an incentive or not and the findings appear to be rather contradictory (Camerer and Hogarth 1999; Read 2005).”
A parameter-free analysis of the utility of money for the general population under prospect theory (2009, background): “…exerted by subjects between the treatments, either because the hypothetical nature of the hypothetical task was highlighted in the instructions (Read, 2005), or because the task itself was surrounded by real tasks, making the contrast between the real and hypothetical treatments particularly…”
A Typology of Players: Between Instinctive and Contemplative (2016, background): “(For a detailed discussion of the monetary incentive issue, see Camerer and Hogarth (1999) and Read (2005) as well as the references there.)”
Response time and decision making: An experimental study (2013, background): “Nonetheless, there has been some heated criticism of this method of experimentation by experimental economists, which has focused on two points (see Rubinstein (2001)): (a) The lack of monetary incentives.”