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Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care : Evidence from Community Health Centers

Cadena, Brian C. - 2019

Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...

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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina - 2016

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2007

In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives and standards are increasingly common, the existing...

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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo A.; … - 2023

-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El … episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer Ã¢â ¬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

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Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization : A Quasi-Experiment

Antinyan, Armenak; Bellio, Stefania; Bertoni, Marco; … - 2022

An Italian region introduced a web portal allowing women to manage online their appointment in the public cervical cancer screening program, besides the standard possibility of doing it via phone. We report quasi-experimental evidence on how access to the portal changes screening behaviour. We...

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Managing Dual Practice of Health Workers : Evidence from Indonesia

González, Paula; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2022

Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries characterized by weak monitoring and low motivation. This paper exploits an exogenous variation in the initiation of private practice among heads of local public facilities (known as...

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Management, Supervision, and Health Care : A Field Experiment

Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2017

If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...

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Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Kim, Seonghoon - 2018

We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the … health. An additional analysis on the Tennessee healthcare reform supports our findings' external validity. Using the reform … provide novel evidence on the psychological consequences of Massachusetts' healthcare reform …

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