Incentivizing Creativity: A Large-Scale Experiment with Performance Bonuses and Gifts
通过大规模实验室实验，比较了绩效奖金和工资礼物对创造性任务和简单任务产出的影响，发现绩效奖金对两者均有提升，而工资礼物仅提升简单任务产出。
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment that compared the impacts of a performance bonus and a wage gift on output from a creative task and a simple task. We find that the performance bonus substantially increases output in both the creative task and the simple task. By comparison, the wage gift increases output only in the simple task. Additional experimental treatments suggest that reciprocity in the creative task is inhibited because agents are uncertain about how their efforts affect the payments that accrue to the principal as a result of the agents’ work.