We argue that an answer to this question can be found in recent empirical work in economic sociology, institutional economics and Austrian economics. This work studies the meaning of incentives in particular social settings and shows that incentives become meaningful in relation to those settings. We...
The analysis brings to light the negotiation process in which the significance and meaning of the contested issue is not settled by adopting certain rules in a mechanical way but is worked out by context-dependent interpretations of the community of specialists. 展开 ...
What is the meaning of core finance? What is the purpose of signing a credit card receipt? What are some typical job benefits? What are complements in economics? In finance, what is LTV? What is advantage of buying at market cost? What is the purpose of business law and why is there ...
Eminent economist Mr. N. Gregory Mankiw gave usten principles of economicsin his famous book “Principles of Economics.”“Principle 4: People respond to incentives” is the fourth principle out of the ten principles. It tells us how people make decisions in an economy when they are given inc...
8. Note that control households started receiving cash benefits in December 1999. Households are first incorporated into PROGRESA, meaning that they are given all the necessary forms and informed of all the programme requirements. A few months later, the cash benefits are sent out by the PROGRESA...
In this paper, we formulate a natural model for the network effects of sharing behavior, which we term the "demand model." We prove that the model has desirable concavity properties, meaning that the network benefit of increasing payments decreases when the payments are already high. This ...
The irrigating public: the state and local management in colonial irrigation. The paper investigates the roots of the interface between the state and the local community in irrigation in order to understand the meaning that the Briti... D Gilmartin 被引量: 22发表: 1999年 Public Sector Employme...
trust in vaccination providers, safety and efficacy perceptions of vaccines, attitudes towards financial incentives, and feelings of self-determination and coercion. We incentivized several of the measures in the survey by implementing the choices of some participants, meaning that some of the survey me...
Meaning Monetary incentives may not substantially increase colorectal cancer screening rates in populations with a traditionally low rate of screening completion.Abstract Importance Although screening decreases incidence of and mortality from colorectal cancer (CRC), screening rates are low. Health-promoting ...
Meaning Across all study groups, participants lost a modest amount of weight but those who received interventions did not lose significantly more weight, suggesting that more intensive individualized weight loss strategies may be needed. Abstract Importance Modest weight loss can lead to meaningful risk...