In this workshop we will discuss insights obtained from field and lab experiments aimed at assessing how people respond to financial and other incentives. We first focus on how effective are traditional financial incentives in solving agency problems, focusing on both incentive and selection effects that pay-for-performance schemes induce, and also the possibility that they might crowd-out intrinsic motivation. Moreover, we will discuss alternative methods to motivate workers such as non-monetary and social incentives. Beyond the role of incentives in the workplace context we will discuss evidence on the effectiveness of incentives in inducing prosocial behaviour, for instance, the provision of public goods, such as blood donations.