Generating Reform: Incentivizing Public Officials to Try It Out

• In Event: Reforming Government Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

We experiment with top-down ‘authoritarian’ and bottom-up ‘grass roots’ information campaigns and financial incentives in a randomized control trial in the central government of Liberia.

Authors

• Erika Deserrano, Northwestern University

• Jennifer Ljungqvist, World Bank

• Vincent Pons, Harvard University

• Daniel Rogger, World Bank Research Department