Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay

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Autor(a) principal: Holmås, Tor Helge
Data de Publicação: 2010
Outros Autores: Kjerstad, Egil, Lurås, Hilde, Straume, Odd Rune
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/13717
Resumo: We study whether the use of monetary incentives might be counter-productive. In particular, we analyse the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals. Exploiting a unique natural experiment involving changes in the catchment areas of two large Norwegian hospitals, we find that hospital length of stay are longer in the hospital using fines to reduce length of stay compared with the hospital not using monetary punishment. We interpret these results as examples of monetary incentives crowding-out agents’ intrinsic motivation, leading to a reduction in effort.
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spelling Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stayMotivation crowdingIntrinsic motivationMonetary punishmentHospital length of staySocial SciencesWe study whether the use of monetary incentives might be counter-productive. In particular, we analyse the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals. Exploiting a unique natural experiment involving changes in the catchment areas of two large Norwegian hospitals, we find that hospital length of stay are longer in the hospital using fines to reduce length of stay compared with the hospital not using monetary punishment. We interpret these results as examples of monetary incentives crowding-out agents’ intrinsic motivation, leading to a reduction in effort.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)ElsevierUniversidade do MinhoHolmås, Tor HelgeKjerstad, EgilLurås, HildeStraume, Odd Rune2010-082010-08-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/13717eng0167-268110.1016/j.jebo.2010.03.024http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.03.024info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:09:42Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/13717Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:01:11.237771Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
title Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
spellingShingle Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
Holmås, Tor Helge
Motivation crowding
Intrinsic motivation
Monetary punishment
Hospital length of stay
Social Sciences
title_short Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
title_full Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
title_fullStr Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
title_full_unstemmed Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
title_sort Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay
author Holmås, Tor Helge
author_facet Holmås, Tor Helge
Kjerstad, Egil
Lurås, Hilde
Straume, Odd Rune
author_role author
author2 Kjerstad, Egil
Lurås, Hilde
Straume, Odd Rune
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Holmås, Tor Helge
Kjerstad, Egil
Lurås, Hilde
Straume, Odd Rune
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Motivation crowding
Intrinsic motivation
Monetary punishment
Hospital length of stay
Social Sciences
topic Motivation crowding
Intrinsic motivation
Monetary punishment
Hospital length of stay
Social Sciences
description We study whether the use of monetary incentives might be counter-productive. In particular, we analyse the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals. Exploiting a unique natural experiment involving changes in the catchment areas of two large Norwegian hospitals, we find that hospital length of stay are longer in the hospital using fines to reduce length of stay compared with the hospital not using monetary punishment. We interpret these results as examples of monetary incentives crowding-out agents’ intrinsic motivation, leading to a reduction in effort.
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