Donato, K;
Miller, G;
Truskinovsky, Y;
Mohanan, M;
Vera Hernandez, M;
(2017)
Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence From A Field Experiment Among Maternity Care Providers In India.
American Economic Review
, 107
(5)
pp. 506-510.
10.1257/aer.p20171105.
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Abstract
We study how agents respond to performance incentives according to key personality traits (conscientiousness and neuroticism) through a field experiment offering financial incentives for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes to rural Indian doctors. More conscientious providers performed better--but improved less--under performance incentives. The effect of the performance incentives was also smaller for providers with higher levels of neuroticism. Our results contribute to a growing body of empirical research on heterogeneous responses to incentives and have implications for worker selection.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence From A Field Experiment Among Maternity Care Providers In India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/aer.p20171105 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171105 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536086 |
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