Based off of your field, do folks respond to incentives in predictable ways?

Depends on how clever the person predicting is.

I think so.

There have been a lot of surprises in the ways in which the various dimensions interact.

So I'll give you two now classic examples in the field, one having to do with blood donation and another having to do with Israeli daycare.

So with the blood, the idea was, hey, we need more people to donate blood.

Let's be very neoclassical economists and just add some pay.

If you were to give some advice to our listeners from your perspective of an economist, what advice would you give to a company trying to design incentives to reward people in a way that's effective and not getting at some of these unintended consequences and really supporting the intrinsic motivation that we've talked about?