Sentence examples for a marginal incentive from inspiring English sources

A program with huge benefits for society (and for patients) offered only a marginal incentive to the health plan to create it.

Our estimates of marginal incentive for a one percent point improvement in health gain are not affected by this problem, so long as baseline performance is below the target for maximum payment.

Indicator DM18 (influenza immunization in diabetes) in 2004 is used here as a worked example to demonstrate how marginal incentive payment and health gain was calculated.

To calculate the marginal incentive payment for a 1% increase in performance, the maximum total incentive payment was divided by the percentage difference between the upper and lower payment thresholds for payment.

Having partnered with the BBC again, HBO likely has the equivalent of a promotable bargain, but there's otherwise marginal incentive to check into this "Vacancy".

"One thing we learned from the Depression is marginal, incentive changes don't work very well when the economy is falling away from you very rapidly," said Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

The new top tax rate means that the most affluent households will be paying more in taxes and have less disposable income for charitable donations, while the proposed deduction cap hurts the marginal incentive to give.

Chetty (2008) shows that 60%% of the increase in unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a "liquidity effect" rather than distortions on marginal incentives to search ("moral hazard").

Many economists attributed the slowdown to rigid labour policies, high taxes, marginal incentives for investment, and generous incentives for workers to retire, miss work, or be unemployed.

The research is clear on this point: Companies sell more when they eliminate thresholds at which salespeople's marginal incentives are reduced.

Our analysis is based on a series of experimental public good games designed to isolate the impact of exogenously requested minimum contributions (obligations) from those of the marginal incentives backing them.