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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Callen, Michael - 2016

-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for … doctor attendance. The scale of the experiment permits an investigation into the mechanisms underlying this result. We find …

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Personalities and Public Sector Performance : Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan

Callen, Michael - 2015

This paper provides evidence that the personalities of policymakers matter for policy. Three results support the relevance of personalities for policy. First, doctors with higher Big Five and Perry Public Sector Motivation scores attend work more and falsify inspection reports less. Second,...

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Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices : Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?

Bridges, John - 2011

Background: Most applications of choice-based conjoint analysis in health use choice tasks with only two profiles, while those in marketing routinely use three or more. This study reports on a randomized trial comparing paired with triplet profile choice formats focused on measuring patient...

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Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Li, Jinhu - 2011

exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and … nearly all the services provided by practicing primary care physicians in Ontario. With an individual-level data set of …

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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

Alsan, Marcella - 2018

due to chronic diseases which are amenable to primary and secondary prevention. In a field experiment in Oakland …

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Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence : Experimental Evidence from Radiology

Agarwal, Nikhil; Moehring, Alex; Rajpurkar, Pranav; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

assisted by AI predictions could outperform both human-alone or AI-alone. We conduct an experiment with professional …

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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Hanna, Rema - 2013

In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...

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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South

Eli, Shari - 2015

Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...

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The Value of Democracy : Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

Burgess, Robin - 2013

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...

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Charity and Favoritism in the Field : Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?

Abrevaya, Jason - 2010

Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor...

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