TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brañas-Garza, Pablo
AU  - García-Muñoz, Teresa
AU  - Neuman, Shoshana
        TI  - The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
        PY  - 2008/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3287
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3287
        AB  - This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven are much more relevant than beliefs in hell when estimating the production of religious commodities (church-attendance and praying equations).
        KW  - rewards
KW  - economics of religion
KW  - carrot/stick
KW  - punishment
KW  - high stakes
        ER  -