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Roland Bénabou
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 127
Citations - 27714
Roland Bénabou is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Redistribution (cultural anthropology) & Human capital. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 122 publications receiving 25131 citations. Previous affiliations of Roland Bénabou include National Bureau of Economic Research & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Roland Bénabou,Jean Tirole +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show that performance incentives offered by an informed principal can adversely affect an agent's perception of the task, or of his own abilities, and also study the effects of empowerment, help and excuses on motivation, as well as situations of ego bashing reflecting a battle for dominance within a relationship.
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
TL;DR: This paper developed a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect, and analyzed the socially optimal level of incentives and how monopolistic or competitive sponsors depart from it.
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect, and analyze the equilibrium contracts offered by sponsors, including the level and confidentiality of incentives.
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Self-Confidence and Personal Motivation
Roland Bénabou,Jean Tirole +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring these concerns into the realm of economic analysis, and show that this has important implications for how agents process information and make decisions, and that the tools of economic modelling can help shed light on a number of apparently irrational behaviours documented by psychologists.
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Inequality and Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and extend the main theories linking income distribution and growth, as well as the relevant empirical evidence, using two unifying models and an empirical exercise.