Rasul, I;
Rogger, D;
(2016)
Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service.
The Economic Journal
, 128
(608)
pp. 413-446.
10.1111/ecoj.12418.
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Abstract
We study how the management practices bureaucrats operate under correlate to the quantity of public services delivered, using data from the Nigerian Civil Service. We have hand-coded independent engineering assessments of 4700 project completion rates. We supplement this with a management survey in the bureaucracies responsible for these projects, building on Bloom and Van Reenen [2007]. Management practices matter: increasing bureaucrats’ autonomy is positively associated with completion rates, yet practices related to incentives/monitoring of bureaucrats are negatively associated with completion rates. Our evidence provides new insights on the importance of management in public bureaucracies in a developing country setting. JEL Classification: J33, O20.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12418 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12418 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517890 |
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