De Janvry, Alain; He, Guojun; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However …, delegating evaluation power to local leadership could induce influence activities: employees might devote too much effort to …. We find that civil servants do engage in evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, partly in the form …