The under-provision of user-generated content (UGC) has reportedly resulted in the demise of many an online community. In recent years, a number of scholars have undertaken studies of possible incentives to stimulate UGC production. The incentives that have been considered to date can generally be classified into one of two groups: social and monetary. Chen et al. (2010) provide an example of w...

This article reviews recent evidence on the effectiveness of using small monetary and non-monetary incentives to encourage children choose healthier foods. We discuss rationale for such from perspective behavioral economics, controversial aspects interventions. In reviewing evidence, we compare key parameters schemes, as their nature (monetary or not), frequency at which they are given how long...

Emanuel and Miller argue that “by themselves the payment and profit status of [TeGenero] do not make the [TGN1412] trail ethically suspect” (2007, 76). I think that they are right to argue that there is nothing necessarily incriminating about for-profit companies conducting medical research, but that this conclusion is irrelevant to the moral status of incentives in the TeGenero trial. Not only...

evaluating and selecting alternatives investment projects needs considering all relevant and important aspects. in traditional methods, the focus is just on tangible monetary criteria. also in the traditional methods, either all the information’s about factors must be known precisely or sufficient objective data must be available for applying probability theory. in this paper, a combinative app...

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard incentives; (ii) behavioral factors like present bias, reference dependence, and social preferences; and...