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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20290
来源ID	Working Paper 20290
	What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics
	Raj Chetty; Emmanuel Saez; László Sándor
发表日期	2014-07-10
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	We evaluate policies to increase prosocial behavior using a field experiment with 1,500 referees at the Journal of Public Economics. We randomly assign referees to four groups: a control group with a six week deadline to submit a referee report, a group with a four week deadline, a cash incentive group rewarded with $100 for meeting the four week deadline, and a social incentive group in which referees were told that their turnaround times would be publicly posted. We obtain four sets of results. First, shorter deadlines reduce the time referees take to submit reports substantially. Second, cash incentives significantly improve speed, especially in the week before the deadline. Cash payments do not crowd out intrinsic motivation: after the cash treatment ends, referees who received cash incentives are no slower than those in the four-week deadline group. Third, social incentives have smaller but significant effects on review times and are especially effective among tenured professors, who are less sensitive to deadlines and cash incentives. Fourth, all the treatments have little or no effect on agreement rates, quality of reports, or review times at other journals. We conclude that small changes in journals' policies could substantially expedite peer review at little cost. More generally, price incentives, nudges, and social pressure are effective and complementary methods of increasing prosocial behavior.
主题	Public Economics ; Taxation ; Public Goods
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20290
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577963
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Raj Chetty,Emmanuel Saez,László Sándor. What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics. 2014.