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Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan
Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
2017
This paper provides evidence that the personalities of policymakers matter for policy. Three results support the relevance of personalities for policy. First, doctors with higher Big Five and Perry Public Sector Motivation scores attend work more and falsify inspection reports less. Second, health inspectors who score higher on these measures exhibit larger treatment responses to increased monitoring. Last, senior health officials with higher personality scores respond more to data on staff absence by compelling better subsequent attendance. These results suggest that interpersonal differences matter are consequential for state performance.
Field Experiments, Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact, Bureaucracy, Administrative Processes in Public Organizations, Corruption, Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government, Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives, Capitalist Systems: General, Comparative Economic Systems: General
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