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Título: | Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? the case of hospital bed-blocking |
Autor(es): | Holmås, Tor Helge Kjerstad, Egil Lurås, Hilde Straume, Odd Rune |
Palavras-chave: | Motivation crowding Intrinsic motivation Monetary punishment Hospital bed blocking |
Data: | 2008 |
Editora: | Universidade do Minho. Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE) |
Citação: | NIPE Working Paper series; 17 |
Resumo(s): | We study whether the use of explicit monetary incentives might be counter-productive. In particular, we focus on the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals. We outline a simple theoretical model, based on motivational crowding theory, deriving the conditions for explicit monetary incentives to have potentially counterproductive effects. In the empirical part, we exploit a natural experiment involving changes in the catchments areas of two large Norwegian hospitals. We find that bed-blocking is reduced when transferring long-term care providers from a hospital using monetary fines to prevent bed-blocking to a hospital not relying on this incentive scheme, and vice versa. We interpret these results as examples of monetary incentives crowding out agents’ intrinsic motivation, leading to a reduction in effort. |
Tipo: | Documento de trabalho |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/7880 |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | NIPE - Documentos de Trabalho |
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NIPE_WP_17_2008.pdf | Documento principal | 515,65 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |