“Rational inattention” is becoming increasingly prominent in economic modeling, but there little empirical evidence for its central premise-that the choice of attention results from a cost-benefit optimization. Observational data typically do not allow researchers to infer choices observables. We fill this gap literature by exploiting unique dataset professional forecasters who update their inf...

Can financial-incentive programs help people improve behavior in health settings where self-control problems are important? We report the results of a large-scale field experiment with employees of a Fortune 500 company on the effect of financial incentives at encouraging exercise. The treatment group for the experiment received a onemonth incentive program, during which time they could earn $1...

BACKGROUND Incentive spirometers are widely used in clinical practice and classified as flow-oriented (FIS) and volume-oriented (VIS). Until recently the respiratory inductive plethysmography used to evaluate the effects of incentive spirometry on chest wall mechanics presented limitations, which may explain why the impact of VIS and FIS remains poorly known. OBJECTIVE To compare the effects ...

abstract background: after coronary artery bypass surgery, pulmonary complications and oxygenation disorders are common, which have an important role in mortality and morbidity. different methods are used for the improvement of pulmonary function and oxygenation, of which incentive spirometry (is) has been investigated here. the aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of is on arterial blo...

Abstract Numerous product quality scandals are caused by low-quality inputs. When input is not perfectly observed downstream firms, upstream firms often have moral hazard problems. If vertical integration does directly eliminate the problems, still improve quality? so, under which conditions? We find that given precision of monitoring technology used when level public very high or low, no incen...

Construction waste destroys the sustainability of environment and economy. In study game theory at present, construction resource-based products supply chain only considers that there is one type enterprise producing renewable building materials or new in market, but no single enterprise. It isvery important for government to protect promote resource utilization development waste. Therefore, th...

We showed in McLean and Postlewaite (2014) that when agents are informationally small, there exist small modi…cations to VCG mechanisms in interdependent value problems that restore incentive compatibility. This paper presents a two-stage mechanism that similarly restores incentive compatibility. The …rst stage essentially elicits that part of the agents’private information that induces interde...