This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …

This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …

Financial incentives are increasingly being advocated as an effective means to change health-related behaviours and … improve health outcomes. There is, however, little evidence on whether financial incentives work in low-income countries … Incentive Programme (SDIP) – that provides cash incentives to women conditional on them giving birth in a government health …

treatments improve worker effort and communication with mothers, who in turn feed a more calorific diet to children at home … controlled study of 160 ICDS centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign workers to either fixed bonuses or payments … based on the nutritional status of children in their care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only …

care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three … improve worker effort and communication with mothers, who in turn feed a more calorific diet to their children at home …This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health …

the fact that only mothers whose child is born in or after July 2015 are eligible for the new part-time PL option in a … Difference-in-Differences strategy. We find that the policy increased the probability that high income mothers return to work …

of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …