Documentos e Relatórios
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The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10459 Data do documento: 30 de maio de 2023 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Murgia,Lucia Milena,Ul Haq,Imtiaz
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Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses) : Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9354 Data do documento: 10 de agosto de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Nguyen,Ha Minh
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Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor : Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS8666 Data do documento: 6 de dezembro de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS8338 Data do documento: 13 de fevereiro de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.
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Biased policy professionals (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS8113 Data do documento: 26 de junho de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Dercon,Stefan,Gauri,Varun
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The governance game (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 112876 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS7261 Data do documento: 11 de maio de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.
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Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6729 Data do documento: 1 de dezembro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.
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Experiments in culture and corruption : a review (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6064 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Banuri,Sheheryar,Eckel, Catherine