Analyzing the Determinants of Health Worker Performance

Leonard, Kenneth L.; Mæstad, Ottar

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0931-6_ch8

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“…The constructs used are grounded in Deci and Ryan's (1985) theory of self-determination and Herzberg's (1966) two factor model of motivation. 9 The items have been specifically developed to measure these constructs among endline service providers, such as teachers and health workers, in Sub-Saharan Africa (see Mbindyo et al (2009), Prytherch et al (2012) and Leonard and Maestad (2016) for more details on the instrument).…”

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Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

2017

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Public employees in many developing economies earn much higher wages than similar privatesector workers. These wage premia may reflect an efficient return to effort or unobserved skills, or an inefficient rent causing labor misallocation. To distinguish these explanations, we exploit the Kenyan government's algorithm for hiring eighteen-thousand new teachers in 2010 in a regression discontinuity design. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates yield a civil-service wage premium of over 100 percent (not attributable to observed or unobserved skills), but no effect on motivation, suggesting rent-sharing as the most plausible explanation for the wage premium.

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