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Rewarding Results or Rewarding Efforts?

Abstract The main objective of teaching is to make sure that the students learn the required material. From this viewpoint, it seems reasonable to reward students when they learn this material. In other words, it seems reasonable to assign the student’s rewards (such as grades) based on their level of knowledge. However, experiments show that, contrary to this seemingly intuitive conclusion, we...

Rewarding Behaviors

Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a very popular tool for decision theoretic planning (DTP), partly because of the welldeveloped, expressive theory that includes effective solution techniques. But the Markov assumption—that dynamics and rewards depend on the current state only, and not on history— is often inappropriate. This is especially true of rewards: we frequently wish to associate rew...

Rewarding Idleness

Market wages re ect expected productivity, making use of signals of past performance and past experience. These signals are generated at least partially on the job, creating incentives for agents to choose high pro le and highly visible tasks. When agents have private information about the profitability of di erent tasks, rms may wish to prevent over-investment in those that entail signaling, b...

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