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No margin, no mission? A field experiment on incentives for public service delivery
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ashraf, N., Bandiera, O., & Jack, B. K.
- Affiliations
- Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (GB)
- Tufts University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ashraf, Nava
- ORCID
- Bandiera, Oriana
- Venue
- Journal of Public Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 120
- Pages
- 1-17
- ISSN
- 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1520812396
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 22.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Public Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- 3ie
- STICERD
- WAPPP
- HBS DRFD
- Sustainability Science Program
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- extrinsic rewards, non-monetary incentives, financial incentives, public service delivery, HIV prevention, condom distribution, agent performance, prosocial motivation, incentive design
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