Thursday, November 17, 2011

Incentive Compensation in the Academy

Even professors respond to incentives. The abstract for a new paper in Economic Letters states:
Using panel data, we demonstrate a 50% increase in research productivity following a dramatic increase in the piece rate paid for articles by a major Chinese University. The increased productivity comes exclusively from those who were already research active.

Hat tip E. Frank Stephenson at Division of Labor

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