Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings

Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether this works, with heterogeneity in preferences over postings impacting effectiveness. We propose a performance-ranked serial dictatorship mechanism, whereby bureaucrats sequ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Khan, Adnan Q., Khwaja, Asim Ijaz, Olken, Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124227