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It's in the book Freakonomics, when talking about economic, social, and moral incentives. The day care changed what was a social incentive for an economic one,
by euyyn 9y ago
It's in the book Freakonomics, when talking about economic, social, and moral incentives.
The day care changed what was a social incentive for an economic one, and then couldn't reverse the consequences: Not fining the parents anymore didn't reduce the number of late ones to previous levels.
- pilsetnieks 9y agoThe story also appears in Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational" [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89233955/dan-ariely-takes-on-irrational-economic-impulses https://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89233955/dan-ariely-takes-on-...