Recent work by Erika Deserranno
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Sharing financial incentives between community health workers and their supervisors improved healthcare in Sierra Leone
A shared performance incentive scheme for health workers and their supervisors improved productivity and health outcomes and was more effective than paying the incentive to only one group
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Do NGOs undermine government capacity? Evidence from health services in Uganda
NGO provision of health services in rural Uganda either complemented or undermined government capacity, depending on the supply of skilled labour
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Promotion, pay and productivity: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Do meritocratic promotions increase worker productivity?
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When transparency fails: Financial incentives for local banking agents in Indonesia
In contexts where information on new financial technologies is limited, publicly disclosing an agent’s financial incentives negatively impacts take-up
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Do social structures affect the success of development policies?
Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions
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Does higher pay attract better applicants? Evidence from a Ugandan NGO
Financial incentives to community health promoters attract more applicants at the expense of crowding out pro-social preferences