Incentive Design

New research finds that the app’s ratings and incentive system made its drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers.

Rosenzweig, Founding Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator at the University of Chicago, is advancing market shaping solutions to incentivize innovation.

Kattan, Executive Director of Adult Literacy at XPRIZE, is improving access to literacy instruction for low-income and low-skilled adults through a competition.

Liu, MBA candidate '20, carved out a special niche in the use of data science as a tool for social change, reforming the government contracting process, and carrying out projects that help agencies do a better job of serving people in need.

Michael Kremer, Nobelist and Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard, was lead economist in an effort by the global health community to overcome the private sector’s underinvestment in vaccines for diseases of the poor.

Prendergast, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth, is using market mechanisms to redesign the food distribution system of Feeding America, the nation’s largest supplier of food to regional food banks.

Olliff-Cooper at McKinsey & Company is promoting relatively new payment models whereby governments compensate providers based on outcomes instead of upfront, including payment-by-results programs like the impact bond.