文件与报告库
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The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab (英语)
Faith-based mutual funds have recently become a growing corner of the mutual fund industry. Morality and ethics are thought to exert an influence on investors’ decisions in this segment, although their...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS10459 文件日期: 2023年5月30日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Murgia,Lucia Milena,Ul Haq,Imtiaz
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Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses) : Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption (英语)
The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9354 文件日期: 2020年8月10日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Nguyen,Ha Minh
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Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor : Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? (英语)
Do service providers respond to pecuniary incentives to serve the poor? Service delivery to the poor is complicated by the extra effort required to deliver services to them and the intrinsic incentives...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8666 文件日期: 2018年12月6日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Keefer,Philip E.,Robyn,Paul Jacob
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Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care (英语)
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8338 文件日期: 2018年2月13日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.
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Biased policy professionals (英语)
A large literature focuses on the biases of individuals and consumers, as well as "nudges" and other policies that can address those biases. Although policy decisions are often more consequential than...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8113 文件日期: 2017年6月26日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Dercon,Stefan,Gauri,Varun
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The governance game (英语)
In this paper, the authors use the lab to test a series of policy proposals designed to constrain rent-seeking behaviour in a policymaking context. The baseline governance game is conducted in the following...
文件类型: 工作文件 报告号: 112876 文件日期: 2017年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Bulman,David Janoff,F. Lopez-Calva,Luis,Molina,Ezequiel,Safir,Abla,Sharma,Siddharth
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Was Weber right ? the effects of pay for ability and pay for performance on pro-social motivation, ability and effort in the public sector (英语)
This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals in organizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7261 文件日期: 2015年5月11日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.
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Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service (英语)
Pay schemes in the public sector aim to attract motivated, high-ability applicants. A nascent literature has found positive effects of higher pay on ability and no or slightly positive effects on motivation...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6729 文件日期: 2013年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.
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Experiments in culture and corruption : a review (英语)
Two decades of empirical evaluation have shown that corruption has a negative impact on economic growth, political stability, judicial effectiveness, democratization, educational attainment, and equality...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6064 文件日期: 2012年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Banuri,Sheheryar,Eckel, Catherine