It would surely be an effective incentive.
Not as glamorous, perhaps, as a night in the Lincoln Bedroom, but it has proved an effective incentive.
As it happens, most women who show up at his lot find this to be a more effective incentive than a loan with a reduced A.P.R.
"Cash is a very effective incentive that we use all the time," said Bonnie Steinbock, chairwoman of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Albany, who has studied incentives in reproductive decision-making.
Perhaps the most effective incentive, available through federal and many state programmes, is loan forgiveness for medical graduates who work in underserved areas hardly surprising, since the average medical student graduates with debts of $155,000.
But how precisely these inputs are converted into a test score is a mystery, and without knowing which lever to pull, it is difficult to design an effective incentive scheme.
In a letter signed by more than 50 Australian economists, the point is made that the carbon price is "a necessary and desirable structural reform of the Australian economy, designed to change relative prices in a way that provides an effective incentive to consumers and producers to shift over time to more low-carbon, energy-efficient patterns of consumption and production".
True, there has been a modest reduction in the use of share options, an especially effective incentive to pump shares because options are worth a fortune if the share price rises above the exercise price, but nothing if it does not.
The obvious and most effective incentive is money, he wrote.
We consider an effective incentive model for the user-initiated data offloading.
