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| 100 | 1 | _aChristensen, Peter. | |
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_aIncentive Pay and Social Returns to Worker Effort in Public Programs: _bEvidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program / _cPeter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2023. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w31322 |
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| 500 | _aJune 2023. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aAligning compensation with recipient outcomes has the potential to improve the efficiency of government programs. We perform a field experiment to evaluate the impact of performance bonuses on the returns to spending in a large low-income energy efficiency assistance program. We find that performance-based bonuses dramatically increased program natural gas savings by 24%. The bonuses generate $5.39-$14.53 in social benefits for every dollar invested and increase the social net benefits from home-level weatherization more than two-fold. Contractors performing at high quality at baseline respond disproportionately to the incentives, suggesting that gains in the program's cost-effectiveness result from more efficient allocation of worker effort across workers who differ in their marginal effort cost. We do not find evidence of learning within the two-year study period or of increased deficiencies among non-incentivized tasks. | |
| 530 | _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers | ||
| 538 | _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | _aFrancisco, Paul. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aMyers, Erica. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w31322. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w31322 |
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