-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 …

-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 …

that politicians provide public jobs with limited work requirements as patronage. We test this patronage hypothesis in … Pakistan using: (i) a randomized controlled evaluation of a novel smartphone absence monitoring technology; (ii) data on … election outcomes in the 240 constituencies where the experiment took place; (iii) attendance recorded during unannounced …

Primary care physicians have two roles: the healer and the gatekeeper. We show that, due to information asymmetries … truly sick and shirkers, will strictly prefer physicians who give priority to healing. The choice between work and sick … leave thus lies, essentially, with the patient. Interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians confirm this: Our …