The allocation of incentives in multi-layered organizations
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- dc.contributor.author Deserranno, Erika
- dc.contributor.author Caria, Stefano
- dc.contributor.author Kastrau, Philipp
- dc.contributor.author León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:09:40Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:09:40Z
- dc.date.issued 2022-04-29
- dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:08:38Z
- dc.description.abstract A classic problem faced by organizations is to decide how to distribute incentives among their different layers. By means of a field experiment with a large public-health organization in Sierra Leone, we show that financial incentives maximize output when they are equally shared between frontline health workers and their supervisor. The impact of this intervention on completed health visits is 61% larger than the impact of incentive schemes that target exclusively the worker or the supervisor. Also, the shared incentives uniquely improve overall health-service provision and health outcomes. We use these experimental results to structurally estimate a model of service provision and find that shared incentives are effective because worker and supervisor effort are strong strategic complements, and because side payments across layers are limited. Through the use of counterfactual model experiments, we highlight the importance of effort complementarities across the different layers of an organization for optimal policy design.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1838
- dc.identifier.citation
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68573
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1838
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- dc.subject.keyword incentives
- dc.subject.keyword multi-layered organizations
- dc.subject.keyword effort complementarities
- dc.subject.keyword side payments
- dc.subject.keyword output
- dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
- dc.title The allocation of incentives in multi-layered organizations
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