Trial reportJournal of health economics2018
Giving and promising gifts: Experimental evidence on reciprocity from the field.
Trial report in Journal of health economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Enhancing the antenatal care quality through incentivized routine health information system in Northwestern Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study (2020-2021).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of Performance-Based Nonfinancial Incentives on Data Quality in Individual Medical Records of Institutional Births: Quasi-Experimental Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Preferences of healthcare workers for provider payment systems in The Gambia's National Health Insurance Scheme.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Playing defense? Health care in the era of Covid.Journal of health economics · 2022Article
- "If the Big Fish are Doing It Then Why Not Me Down Here?": Informal Fee Payments and Reproductive Health Care Provider Motivation in Kenya.Studies in family planning · 2020Article
- Understanding healthcare provider absenteeism in Kenya: a qualitative analysis.BMC health services research · 2019Article
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Abstract
We test the value of unconditional non-monetary gifts as a way to improve health worker performance in a low income country health setting. We randomly assigned health workers to different gift treatments within a program that visited health workers, measured performance and encouraged them to provide high quality care for their patients. We show that unconditional non-monetary gifts improve performance by 20 percent over a six-week period, compared to the control group. We compare the impact of the unconditional gift to one in which a gift is offered conditional on meeting a performance target and show that only the unconditional gift results in a statistically significant improvement. This demonstrates that organizations can improve the performance of health workers in the medium term without using financial incentives.
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