This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

This paper investigates the finite sample performance of a comprehensive set of semi- and nonparametric estimators for … treatment and policy evaluation. In contrast to previous simulation studies which mostly considered semiparametric approaches …