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