Perverse incentive (English Wikipedia)

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Ditchkoff, Stephen S.; Holtfreter, Robert W.; Williams, Brian L. (September 2017). "Effectiveness of a bounty program for reducing wild pig densities". Wildlife Society Bulletin. 41 (3): 548–555. Bibcode:2017WSBu...41..548D. doi:10.1002/wsb.787.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Wara, Michael (2007). "Is the global carbon market working?". Nature. 445 (7128): 595–596. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..595W. doi:10.1038/445595a. PMID 17287794.

apnews.com (Global: 101^st place; English: 62^nd place)

Aleccia, Jonel (21 December 2022). "New label law has unintended effect: Sesame in more foods". AP News.

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; English: 31^st place)

Graham-Squire, Adam (2024). "Single Transferable Vote and Paradoxes of Negative and Positive Involvement". arXiv:2406.20045 [cs.GT].

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

"Stormont crisis: Deadline passes for future of executive". BBC News. 16 January 2017.
"Bristol Jacobean ceiling 'destroyed before listings visit'". BBC News. 1 September 2017.

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"RHI scandal: RHI 'cash for ash' scandal to cost NI taxpayers £490m". BBC News. 23 December 2016.

bloomberg.com (Global: 118^th place; English: 85^th place)

Coy, Peter (26 March 2021). "Goodhart's Law Rules the Modern World. Here Are Nine Examples". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021.

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Brickman, Leslie H. (2002). Preparing the 21st Century Church. Xulon Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-59160-167-8.
Whitlock, Craig (2021). The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. Simon and Schuster. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-9821-5902-3.
III, Carl C. Swisher; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger (2001). Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-78734-3.

boostforkids.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Rimer (10 April 2019). "Information Sheet #7 Summary of Legal Requirements for Reporting Suspicions of Child Abuse" (PDF). Retrieved 14 March 2024.

canlii.org (Global: 5,817^th place; English: 3,107^th place)

"RSA 2000, c C-12 | Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act". CanLII. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.

cbc.ca (Global: 110^th place; English: 65^th place)

Johnston, Janice (30 October 2019). "Serenity's Law receives royal assent". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
Graveland, Bill (1 October 2017). "Alberta urged to enforce law on child abuse reporting". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 14 March 2024.

cnn.com (Global: 36^th place; English: 26^th place)

Moghe, Sonia (11 July 2015). "Patients give horror stories as cancer doctor gets 45 years". CNN. Retrieved 4 November 2024.

csmonitor.com (Global: 982^nd place; English: 614^th place)

Newcomb, Amelia A. (21 May 1982). "Historic buildings prove special target for arson". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Merton, Robert K. (1936). "The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action". American Sociological Review. 1 (6): 894–904. doi:10.2307/2084615. JSTOR 2084615.
Doron, Gideon; Kronick, Richard (1977). "Single Transferrable Vote: An Example of a Perverse Social Choice Function". American Journal of Political Science. 21 (2): 303–311. doi:10.2307/2110496. ISSN 0092-5853. JSTOR 2110496.
Vann, Michael G. (2003). "Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History". French Colonial History. 4: 191–203. doi:10.1353/fch.2003.0027. S2CID 143028274.
Ditchkoff, Stephen S.; Holtfreter, Robert W.; Williams, Brian L. (September 2017). "Effectiveness of a bounty program for reducing wild pig densities". Wildlife Society Bulletin. 41 (3): 548–555. Bibcode:2017WSBu...41..548D. doi:10.1002/wsb.787.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Langpap, Christian, and JunJie Wu. 2017. "Thresholds, Perverse Incentives, and Preemptive Conservation of Endangered Species" Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4(S1):S227–S259. doi:10.1086/692070.
Lueck, Dean (2003). "Preemptive Habitat Destruction under the Endangered Species Act". The Journal of Law and Economics. 46 (1): 27–60. doi:10.1086/344670.
Wara, Michael (2007). "Is the global carbon market working?". Nature. 445 (7128): 595–596. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..595W. doi:10.1038/445595a. PMID 17287794.
Birnie, Esmond; Brownlow, Graham (2025). "Renewable Heat Incentive in Northern Ireland: Devolved government policy failure". Public Money & Management: 1–9. doi:10.1080/09540962.2025.2607018.
Robinson, JC (21 April 2004). "Reinvention of health insurance in the consumer era". JAMA. 291 (15): 1880–6. doi:10.1001/jama.291.15.1880. PMID 15100208.

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Department for Communities and Local Government (2002). "Fire" Archived 2004-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. In Consultation on the Local Government Finance Formula Grant Distribution. Retrieved 10 November 2006.

escholarship.org (Global: 1,477^th place; English: 863^rd place)

Robinson, JC (21 April 2004). "Reinvention of health insurance in the consumer era". JAMA. 291 (15): 1880–6. doi:10.1001/jama.291.15.1880. PMID 15100208.

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"Commission adopts ban on the use of industrial gas credits". Climate Action. European Commission. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

freakonomics.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Dubner, Stephen J. (11 October 2012). "The Cobra Effect: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast". Freakonomics, LLC. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
"The Cobra Effect". Freakonomics. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012.

friendsofsnakes.org.in (Global: low place; English: low place)

"The Cobra Effect: Colonial Misinformation Masquerading as Economic Theory". Friends of Snakes Society. 2025.

hindustantimes.com (Global: 128^th place; English: 76^th place)

Gupta, Anika. "Carbon credit scam slur on Indian firms". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

historic-uk.com (Global: 8,365^th place; English: 6,722^nd place)

"The Cobra Effect - when Incentives Go Wrong - Historic UK". Historic UK.

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

Merton, Robert K. (1936). "The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action". American Sociological Review. 1 (6): 894–904. doi:10.2307/2084615. JSTOR 2084615.
Doron, Gideon; Kronick, Richard (1977). "Single Transferrable Vote: An Example of a Perverse Social Choice Function". American Journal of Political Science. 21 (2): 303–311. doi:10.2307/2110496. ISSN 0092-5853. JSTOR 2110496.

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"Hacktoberfest 2020". Laravel News. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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"Fort Benning puts a bounty on boars". NBC News. Associated Press. 1 March 2008.

nih.gov (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)

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Wara, Michael (2007). "Is the global carbon market working?". Nature. 445 (7128): 595–596. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..595W. doi:10.1038/445595a. PMID 17287794.
Robinson, JC (21 April 2004). "Reinvention of health insurance in the consumer era". JAMA. 291 (15): 1880–6. doi:10.1001/jama.291.15.1880. PMID 15100208.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Unintended Consequences, New York Times Magazine, 20 January 2008
Rosenthal, Elisabeth; Lehren, Andrew W. (8 August 2012). "Incentive to Slow Climate Change Drives Output of Harmful Gases". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
Sanger-katz, Margot (10 March 2016). "Medicare Tries an Experiment to Fight Perverse Incentives". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
David Segal (26 November 2010). "For DecorMyEyes, Bad publicity is a good thing". New York Times.
Segal, David (2 May 2021). "Has Online Retail's Biggest Bully Returned?". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

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Mark Zwonitzer (2006) "Program Transcript. Transcontinental Railroad. WGBH American Experience". PBS American Experience documentary "Transcontinental Railroad". Archived 30 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine

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Gonzales, Iris. "The cobra effect". Philstar.com. Retrieved 21 April 2026.

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"Press release: Developer mutilates Jacobean ceiling to avoid potential listing". Save Britain's Heritage. 31 August 2017.

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Vann, Michael G. (2003). "Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History". French Colonial History. 4: 191–203. doi:10.1353/fch.2003.0027. S2CID 143028274.

ssrn.com (Global: 907^th place; English: 529^th place)

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Spenkuch, Jörg L. (2012). "Please Don't Vote for Me: Strategic Voting in a Natural Experiment with Perverse Incentives". SSRN 2047221.

theatlantic.com (Global: 322^nd place; English: 198^th place)

Keller, Tony (12 July 2018). "Canada Has Its Own Ways of Keeping Out Unwanted Immigrants". The Atlantic. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

"Participant used a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then exchanged for gift cards". The Guardian. Associated Press. 11 October 2022.

theregister.com (Global: 2,921^st place; English: 1,825^th place)

Claburn, Thomas (1 October 2020). "Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest". The Register. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

tomshardware.com (Global: 3,042^nd place; English: 1,982^nd place)

James, Luke (12 May 2026). "Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 16 August 2026.

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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (27 May 2015). "Chapter 2: Alternatives; Section 2. Methods Dismissed" (PDF). Feral Swine Damage Management: A National Approach. U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service. United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS. p. 78. Final Environmental Impact Statement. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 May 2023.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Rose, Janus (2 August 2022). "Someone Made $3,000 Selling 3D-Printed Guns at a Gun Buyback Event". Vice. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Coy, Peter (26 March 2021). "Goodhart's Law Rules the Modern World. Here Are Nine Examples". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (27 May 2015). "Chapter 2: Alternatives; Section 2. Methods Dismissed" (PDF). Feral Swine Damage Management: A National Approach. U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service. United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS. p. 78. Final Environmental Impact Statement. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 May 2023.
Rose, Janus (2 August 2022). "Someone Made $3,000 Selling 3D-Printed Guns at a Gun Buyback Event". Vice. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022.
"The Cobra Effect". Freakonomics. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012.
Gupta, Anika. "Carbon credit scam slur on Indian firms". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
Mark Zwonitzer (2006) "Program Transcript. Transcontinental Railroad. WGBH American Experience". PBS American Experience documentary "Transcontinental Railroad". Archived 30 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Department for Communities and Local Government (2002). "Fire" Archived 2004-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. In Consultation on the Local Government Finance Formula Grant Distribution. Retrieved 10 November 2006.

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Doron, Gideon; Kronick, Richard (1977). "Single Transferrable Vote: An Example of a Perverse Social Choice Function". American Journal of Political Science. 21 (2): 303–311. doi:10.2307/2110496. ISSN 0092-5853. JSTOR 2110496.
Rosenthal, Elisabeth; Lehren, Andrew W. (8 August 2012). "Incentive to Slow Climate Change Drives Output of Harmful Gases". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
Newcomb, Amelia A. (21 May 1982). "Historic buildings prove special target for arson". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
Sanger-katz, Margot (10 March 2016). "Medicare Tries an Experiment to Fight Perverse Incentives". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

Perverse incentive (English Wikipedia)

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